Moscow barreled hundreds of drones toward four key regions in Ukraine overnight, just as lawmakers in Kyiv scrambled to approve additional defense spending against the backdrop of intensified Russian attacks over the past few days.

The altitude and speed at which the drones fly makes them far more difficult to shoot down, requiring increasingly scarce higher-performance SAMs.

On the night of August 1, Russia attacked Ukraine with more than 70 strike drones and decoy UAVs. Some of the drones hit frontline areas, the Ukrainian Air Force report. During the night attack, the enemy used 72 Shahed UAVs and various types of decoy drones.