The UK's Irish Guards are learning drone warfare lessons from Ukraine, including why being able to quickly make new parts on the battlefield is key.

Two people were hurt in a Russian overnight drone attack in Ukraine's capital Kyiv, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Thursday.

Efforts to halt Russia’s use of the Starlink internet system to guide its drones for attacks on Ukraine have produced “real results,” Ukraine’s defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov said on Sunday.

The first phase of the Pentagon's drone competition, Gauntlet, begins later this month. US drone operators will fly and test the systems.

One Ukrainian innovation has been a system to verify drone strikes that awards points to successful operators, with an online marketplace for bonus kit.

Officials in Ukraine say that a heavy Russian drone attack on Odesa has killed at least three people and wounded 23, including children and a pregnant woman.

Fedorov - then deputy prime minister - asked for Musk's help soon after Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. By the end of the day Musk said Starlink had been enabled in Ukraine and promised more satellite dishes.

A new cutting-edge Drone Engineering Degree course will welcome its first intake of students in the UK, this year.