How many enemy drones were shot down? In the night of March 28, Russia launched 273 strike drones at Ukraine from five directions. Ukrainian air defense forces managed to shoot down most of the enemy drones, according to the Ukrainian Air Forces.

In the night sky near Interstate 75 in northern Oakland County, Mich., 60 drones moved with precision. Their preprogrammed electric dance lit the early evening darkness with a changing, blending palette of red, green and blue as they outlined many forms — a rotating cube, a tornado ripping a roof from a house, a pair of eyes gazing.

A woman with a dog walks among the rubble of a house damaged after a Russian strike on residential area in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Thursday, April 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

"Russia has again chosen escalation over peace with this deplorable onslaught on Kyiv," said one European minister.