Russia launched a file variety of drones at Ukraine in a mass in a single day aerial assault, Ukraine's Air Drive reported the morning of June 1.

Russia attacked Ukraine through the night time with 472 Shahed-type assault drones, breaking its earlier file — set simply final week on Could 26 — by over 100 drones.

Along with almost 500 unmanned aerial autos (UAVs), Moscow additionally focused Ukraine with three Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles and 4 Kh-101, Iskander-Okay air and ground-based cruise missiles, the Air Drive stated.

Ukrainian air protection items shot down 210 drones, whereas one other 172 had been suppressed by digital warfare, in keeping with the Air Drive. Russian drones had been intercepted in 18 completely different places throughout the nation.

The record-shattering drone assault got here on the eve of Ukraine's "Operation Spider Net" — a serious strike on Russia's army airfields coordinated by Ukraine's Safety Service (SBU). The operation hit 41 Russian bombers at 4 airfields, in keeping with the SBU.

The assault, deliberate for over a yr, concerned smuggling first-person-view (FPV) drones deep into Russia. The operation brought about roughly $7 billion in damages and disabled 34% of cruise missile carriers in key Russian air bases, the SBU reported.

Ukraine's strike on Russia's army plane follows a few of Moscow's heaviest aerial bombardments because the starting of the full-scale struggle.

For 3 nights in a row from Could 24-26, Russia barraged Ukraine with drones and missiles, launching a file 298 drones on Could 25 solely to interrupt the file with 355 the next night time.

The escalating assaults kind the backdrop towards which Ukrainian and Russian delegations put together for his or her second spherical of direct peace talks, scheduled for June 2 in Istanbul. The Kremlin has claimed it’ll submit a memorandum outlining its ceasefire situations through the assembly — although earlier guarantees to current phrases have been adopted by weeks of delays.

The primary spherical of talks, held Could 16, failed to supply any important breakthroughs in the direction of a peace settlement.

Russia continues to reject requires an unconditional ceasefire.

‘Russian bombers are burning en masse’ — Ukraine’s SBU drones hit ‘more than 40’ aircraft in mass attack, source says“Currently, more than 40 aircraft are known to have been hit, including the A-50, Tu-95 and Tu-22 M3,” a source told the Kyiv Independent.The Kyiv IndependentChris York