With recent direct talks delivering no progress on US-led international efforts to halt the fighting, Moscow and Kyiv are bulking up their arsenals. Russia launched 5,438 drones at Ukraine in June, a monthly record, according to official data collated by ...

Russia ramped up drone attacks on Ukraine dramatically in June, an AFP analysis published Tuesday showed, pressuring the war-torn country's stretched air defence systems and exhausted civilian population.

The overnight attack was one of the largest on Ukraine and included strikes in the western part of the country, which is hit less often.