9 h. ago Ukraine turns drone war into a game with points from kills to win new kit

A video game-style drone war system has gone “viral” among Ukrainian troops, with soldiers competing for points that can be swapped for new weapons in an “Amazon-for-war” online store

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5 d. ago Ukraine war briefing: Moscow under drone siege for third night running

EU edges towards using ‘reparations loan’ using Russian frozen assets; Kremlin pressing ahead with year-round conscription. What we know on day 1,344Ukraine sent drones towards Moscow for the third consecutive night, closing airports, Russian authorities said late on Tuesday. Rosaviatsiya, the air transport watchdog, said Moscow’s Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo and Zhukovsky airports had flights halted or restricted. Russia usually says all incoming drones were destroyed, regardless of the outcome, and typically gives limited details about the effects of Ukrainian strikes unless civilians or civilian infrastructure are hit. Over the previous two nights, Russia’s defence ministry said there were 35 Ukrainian drones destroyed over the Moscow region. Ukraine says its long-range drone strikes of recent months on Moscow and other Russian regions are aimed at hitting military and industrial assets, damaging Russia’s war economy and bringing the conflict home to Russians.Ukraine also launched se...

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6 d. ago Russian drone attacks on civilians in Ukraine are war crimes, UN report concludes

Rights commission inquiry focused on south-east of country found drones targeted gathering points and critical infrastructureEurope live – latest updatesA UN rights commission has concluded that Russia’s drone attacks on civilians in south-eastern Ukraine constitute crimes against humanity and war crimes.In a report published this week, the commission said Russian forces, operating under a centralised command, had systematically used drones to “intentionally target civilians and civilian objects and cause harm and destruction”. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago How Ukraine and Russia are playing out a deadly cat and mouse drone war from underground bunkers

Sam Kiley joins the Ukrainian infantry near Zaporizhzhia, southern Ukraine, as they bed down in a mud dugout for a night of lethal drone attacks against their Russian enemy – just a few kilometres away

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1 week ago Ukraine reveals ‘sea baby’ drones that could change the war with Russia

The craft are operated remotely from a mobile control center inside a van

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2 w. ago Russian drone incursion ‘tactically stupid and counterproductive’ says Polish minister

Radosław Sikorski says Putin consolidated western opinion against him with the incursion into PolandEurope live – latest updatesPoland’s foreign minister has accused Russia of a “tactically stupid and counterproductive” escalation of the war in Ukraine, saying its drone incursion into Poland last month appeared to be deliberate.Radosław Sikorski, on a visit to London, said all Vladimir Putin had achieved with the incursion was a consolidation of western opinion against him. He also dismissed Russian concerns that supplying US Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine would be unnecessarily provocative. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Ukraine has relied on trains during the war. Russia is creating new technology to target them

Deadly Russian drones smashed into the Shostka train station in northeastern Ukraine earlier this month

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2 w. ago Ukraine war briefing: Poland minister shows Shahed drone and warns of ‘deep’ Russian threat

Radoslaw Sikorski, speaking in London, urges drone wall and three-year plan to back Ukraine; Odesa mayor’s ‘citizenship suspended’. What we know on day 1,330 Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Ukraine war briefing: Power restored to Kyiv after Russia drone attacks

Zelenskyy says attacks targeted energy infrastructure as winter looms; boy killed as drones and missiles hit Zaporizhzhia. What we know on day 1,326Power was restored to 270,000 consumers in Kyiv after attacks from Russia knocked it out, Ukraine’s energy minister Svitlana Hrynchuk wrote on Facebook on Friday. People in Kyiv heard blasts throughout Thursday night and many woke up without power on Friday after the huge air attack targeted Ukraine’s energy system. Images posted online showed firefighters working to tackle burning blocks of flats. Hrynchuk did not say how many people had lost power. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said the Russian strikes targeted civilian and energy infrastructure as Ukraine prepares for winter temperatures.Russian drones and missiles damaged 12 apartment buildings in the south-eastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, killing a seven-year-old boy and injuring four people, according to the regional governor. The Kyiv mayor, Vitali Klitschko, sa...

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4 w. ago French photojournalist, 37, is killed by Russian drone while on an assignment on Ukraine's front line

French prosecutors said on Sunday they had opened a 'war crimes' investigation after a drone killed a French photojournalist on assignment in war-torn eastern Ukraine.

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