July 17, Russian troops attacked the Kaniv community in the Cherkasy region with kamikaze drones. The target was an infrastructure facility, according to Ihor Taburets, head of the Cherkasy Regional Military Administration.

Russia has repeatedly shattered its own records for aerial assaults on Ukraine this summer, culminating in a peak attack on July 9 with the launch of 728 Shahed-type drones. Throughout the war, Russia steadily expanded the reach and intensity of its strikes on Ukrainian cities,

Despite the changes in warfare, Russian forces retain the ascendancy and are making slow but steady advances in the east and north of Ukraine. Russia has also caught up in UAV technology after falling behind early in the war, according to military analysts, and like its enemy is churning out drones domestically at a rate of millions a year.

Russian troops attacked Kryvyi Rih in the Dnipropetrovsk region with drones this morning, July 17. As a result, a fire broke out, and one person was injured, according to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine and the head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration,

Ukraine war has become the most drone-intensive conflict yet – and Ukrainian commanders believe they are the only thing keeping Russian forces at bay, writes