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1. Russia launched its latest massive drone and missile strike on Ukraine, targeting areas in the nation’s west that border European Union states. The attack — including on areas that have seen few if any strikes in the war to date — left at least two people dead and damaged residential houses and other civilian infrastructure. Kremlin forces fired almost 600 Russian drones and 26 cruise missiles across Ukraine, including at Chernivtsi, near the border with Romania and Moldova. It was the first strike on the historically-significant city of some 265,000 people since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022. (Source: bloomberg.com)
2. The New York Times:
(The United States) lags behind Russia and China in manufacturing drones, training soldiers to use them and defending against them, according to interviews with more than a dozen U.S. military officials and drone industry experts….
Drones have become a weapon of choice on modern battlefields. In the early days of the war in Ukraine, soldiers beat back the Russian invasion by adding deadly modifications to the Mavic, a drone sold to hobbyists by DJI, a Chinese company that is the world’s largest drone manufacturer. Versions of the Mavic cost between $300 and $5,000, according to online retailers.
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