Russia has carried out one of the largest-scale aerial attacks using Shahed strike drones and a Kh-47M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missile, the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports. During the night of August 4,

With the DAN-M drone, the Russians have perfected a low-cost way to exhaust finite Ukrainian missile stocks—which, once depleted, clears pathways for more sophisticated Russian attacks.

Ukrainian drone attacks overnight into Saturday killed three people, Russian officials said Saturday, as the two sides continued to trade airstrikes. Russia’s Defense Ministry said air defenses intercepted or destroyed 112 drones across eight Russian regions and the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula.