According to the Air Force, Russia launched two Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles, five Kh-59/69 guided air-launched missiles, and 328 attack drones, including Shahed, Gerbera, Italmass, and other types.

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Russia has been mounting Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite systems on its attack drones to strike deeper into Ukraine, extending their potential flight range to well inside NATO territory, analysts and Ukrainian officials have said.

Ukrainian air defences downed 65 out of 85 Russian drones on the night of 30-31 January, while 20 managed to hit their targets

Russia continuously upgrades its Geran (Shahed) drones to beat Ukrainian defenses, but rising costs now exceed cheap interceptor drones, flipping the cost balance.

Efforts to halt Russia’s use of the Starlink internet system to guide its drones for attacks on Ukraine have produced “real results,” Ukraine’s defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov said on Sunday.

Russian forces have made unauthorized use of thousands of satellite-based internet connections for secure communications since 2022, Kyiv says.

Officials in Ukraine say that a heavy Russian drone attack on Odesa has killed at least three people and wounded 23, including children and a pregnant woman.

Controversy has erupted over four Russian athletes competing as neutrals at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, as their past support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has come to light. On the 5th, the British BBC reported that Petr Gumenyuk,