Russia launched its largest drone and missile bombardment of Ukraine overnight into Wednesday, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Officials say a Russian drone barrage has targeted the center of Kharkiv, injuring nine people and damaging a maternity hospital in Ukraine's second-largest city.

This night, russia struck Ukraine with 26 cruise missiles and 597 drones, more than half of which were Shaheds.The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Mediazona's source said that Mikhail Ryumin was unaware that his vehicle was carrying Ukrainian drones hidden beneath the roofs of the frame house structures.

Israel and Ukraine have used drones against their adversaries in audacious ways that have helped the Pentagon see the need for new technology.

Russia has recently sought to overwhelm Ukraine’s air defenses with major attacks that include increasing numbers of decoy drones.

Unknown drones attacked the temporarily occupied towns of Svatove and Starobilsk in the Luhansk region on Tuesday, July 8, according to Roman Vlasenko, head of the Siverskodonetsk District Military Administration.

When Ukraine turned a corner of Russia’s Kursk region into a battlefield, it set in motion some of the war’s fiercest fighting. Our photographer documented the aftermath.