Russia’s military on Tuesday said it would retaliate against Ukraine after Kyiv attacked Russian regions by firing six US-made ATACMS ballistic missiles, six UK-made Storm Shadow cruise missiles and launching one of the biggest drone attacks to date.

The barrage appeared to be one of the largest recent assaults in Ukraine’s campaign to damage Russia’s war machine on its home territory.

Ukraine carried out one of its largest drone attacks against Russia in this war, striking energy production facilities, weapons storage sites, and other military targets in about a dozen regions across the country,

Although unmanned aerial systems have been around for a while, it wasn’t until the large-scale invasion of Russia on February 24, 2022, that drones started to play such a key role in the tactics, operations,

Fiber-optic drones popped up on the battlefields of Ukraine last year, and are set to become more popular on both sides in 2025.

Ukraine claimed Saturday to have struck one of Russia’s largest oil refineries in a drone attack, starting a fire at the facility more than 700 miles into Russian territory.

Ukraine has targeted infrastructure within Russian territory that it claims serve as secret military bases. Since Western nations authorized Ukraine to use their weapons to strike Russian forces, Kyiv has ramped up long-range drone attacks aimed at destroying depots,