Russia was forced to temporarily close all four major airports in Moscow after Ukraine fired more than 230 drones over the weekend, officials said. At least 140 flights were canceled across Moscow following Ukraine’s counterattack,

Ukraine-Russia war latest: 140 flights cancelled and Moscow airports closed after drone attacks - Russia’s defence ministry said around 230 drones were downed over Russia since Saturday

Shahed-style drones are deadly systems that Russia has been using to strike Ukrainian cities for nearly three years.

In June, Russia's Defense Ministry reported downing a total of 2,368 Ukrainian drones, with an average of almost 79 drones per day across the month. Thus far in July, the Defense Ministry said it has downed 1,533 Ukrainian drones, with a daily average of 90 drones.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia fired more than 700 attack and decoy drones at Ukraine overnight, topping previous nightly barrages for the third time in two weeks, part of Moscow’s intensifying aerial and ground assault in the three-year war, Ukrainian officials said Wednesday.

Russia now controls more than two-thirds of Ukraine’s Donetsk region — the main theater of the ground war. Russian forces have carved out a 10-mile-deep pocket around the Ukrainian troops defending the crucial city of Kostiantynivka, partly surrounding them from the east, south and west.

In a forest in the Kyiv region, 35-year-old engineer Andriy Tchornim takes shelter under the trunk of a navy blue 4x4. Eyes locked on the screen of his joystick, he pays no attention to the torrential rain lashing his face in heavy gusts.

In Chuhuiv, Kharkiv region, environmental pollution with petroleum products was recorded following an attack by Russian drones on a local oil depot, according to the Facebook page of the Main Department of the State Service of Ukraine on Food Safety and Consumer Protection in the Kharkiv region.