Russian attacks killed more than 20 people across Ukraine on Tuesday, including 12 in one of the deadliest strikes this year, hours before the midnight start of an open-ended ceasefire proposed by Kyiv.

Ukraine’s air defences destroyed or jammed 92 out of 102 Russian drones launched overnight on 6–7 May, though eight hit targets in six locations. The attack, involving Shahed and other UAV types, was concentrated in the country’s north and east and ...

Several stray Ukrainian drones hit Latvia and its Nato neighbours Estonia and Lithuania in late March. One slammed into a chimney at a local power station while another crash-landed in a frozen lake and exploded.

EADaily, May 7th, 2026. APU drones hit a Latvian oil depot. In Riga, they said that they had flown in from Russia. Obviously, they lost their way or their operators got lost.

In only four years after the Russian invasion, Ukraine went from being a country knocked back on its heels and scrambling for military aid to emerging as a leading provider of battlefield-tested counter-drone expertise and exporter of anti-drone weapons systems.