Russia "attacked the south of the country again", the Defence Forces of the South of Ukraine said on the messaging platform Telegram.

Ukraine destroyed 29 of 31 drones launched by Russia and one cruise missile, its air force said on Tuesday, most of them targeting the regions of Mykolaiv and Dnipropetrovsk. The waves of overnight attacks lasted more than three hours,

Ukraine said today it had downed over two dozen Iranian-made attack drones and a cruise missile launched by Russian forces from the Crimean peninsula, annexed by Moscow in 2014.

The Russian Armed Forces have lost several million dollars worth of military equipment in a single night attack thanks to a new secret Ukrainian drone according to a statement made by the country’s former Deputy Prime Minister on his Telegram channel.

Ukraine could soon have access to new combat drones with a range of around 5,000 miles, capable of firing cruise missiles and “bunker-buster” bombs. Haluk Bayraktar, CEO of Turkish drone specialist Baykar,