A manufacturing plant in Russia’s Tatarstan region has significantly scaled up its production of Iranian-designed drones, using a range of Chinese components, and recruiting a low-skilled workforce of Russian teenagers and African women,

Andrii Yusov of Ukraine's Defense Intelligence said that Kyiv is increasing the range of its unmanned aerial vehicles.

Russian authorities claim that 56 Ukrainian drones attacked several of their regions on the night of 27-28 December. Source: Russian Ministry of Defence Details: As usual, the Russians claimed that all the UAVs had been shot down.

In a recent escalation, Russia launched 60 drones targeting various regions across Ukraine overnight. Ukrainian air defense successfully downed 36 of these drones, while 23 were neutralized through electronic warfare measures;