The long-range Russian drones come in swarms each night, buzzing over Ukraine by the hundreds, terrorizing the population and attacking targets from the industrial east to areas near its western border with Poland.

Russia has repeatedly shattered its own records for aerial assaults on Ukraine this summer, culminating in a peak attack on July 9 with the launch of 728 Shahed-type drones. Throughout the war, Russia steadily expanded the reach and intensity of its strikes on Ukrainian cities,

The problem is not [that] Another challenge lies in Russia’s evolving drone deployment strategy. With rising production, Moscow is now simultaneously dispatching large swarms of drones, concentrating them on selected targets rather than chaotically scattering them across the country.