Russian air defenses destroyed 73 Ukrainian drones overnight, including three heading for Moscow, Russia's defence ministry said on Friday.

The appearance of FPV drones with fiber-optic control broke away from the radio-frequency logic of modern warfare and presented new challenges for Ukraine’s Defense Forces. What are these drones, and how is Ukraine trying to counter them–read in the RBC-Ukraine's material below.

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,