KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces struck an oil terminal in the Russian Black Sea city of Tuapse, Ukraine’s General Staff said on Friday, marking the fourth attack targeting the region’s oil infrastructure in just over two weeks.

"We see how the Shaheds have started doing maneuvers when our interceptor drones approach," he wrote on his Telegram channel. He also suggested that the system operates based on a camera, a photo of which he also published.

There is something undeniably sinister in the combination of intimacy and detachment in footage taken by ‘first person view’ drones

The Pentagon issued a call to defense industry executives in December 2025 to help it acquire and deploy over 300,000 small one-way attack drones by 2028 as part of a $1 billion initiative. The Marine Corps announced shortly after that it was launching six drone training programs open to any MOS.

Tensions continue to escalate along Israel’s northern border as Hezbollah intensifies its drone attacks. In the latest strike, an explosive-laden UAV hit a vehicle near Misgav Am, setting it on fire and injuring two people.

Volunteers try to clean up oil pollution after Ukrainian strikes on a refinery in the Russian Black Sea town of Tuapse, a key oil-processing and export hub.

Ambush drones are an important weapon in the Ukraine conflict, and tactics for both using and countering them are evolving fast. There is a lot to learn.

The Pentagon seeks roughly $55 billion for drone and autonomous warfare programs in its fiscal year 2027 budget, a dramatic surge from $225 million.

Shocking CCTV from the western Ukrainian city of Lviv captures the moment a drone slammed into a park and childrens playground. Mayor Andriy Sadovyi said on social media that a tractor driver clearing snow was hurt,