Ukraine launched drone attacks on Russian energy infrastructure, disrupting air traffic across the country and sending several drones towards Moscow for the third night in a row, Russian authorities claimed on Wednesday 29 October.

A mystery drone was shot down near a U.S. Army base in Estonia, a NATO member country that borders Russia. The incident took place on October 17, but information about it has surfaced only recently. According to Estonian and NATO officials,

In the city of Kherson, in southern Ukraine, small drones routinely target ordinary people by dropping hand grenades, and record video documenting their attacks, a U.N. commission reported.

Russia has targeted Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, with drones, killing three people in their homes, according to authorities on Sunday.

Waves of missiles and drones throughout the night targeted at least eight Ukrainian cities, as well as a village in the Kyiv region.

Russia is trying "to inflict as much damage as possible on ordinary life," said Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky.

Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine overnight into Saturday killed at least four people and wounded 20, officials said.

Ukraine has stepped up its long-range drone strikes on Russian energy facilities over the past few months.

Within hours of drones entering Poland, thousands of social media posts claimed they were Ukrainian, not Russian, and a “false flag” to pull NATO into the war.

Gun and drone street battles are taking place in the key city of Pokrovsk infiltrated by around 200 Russian soldiers, say Ukrainian defence chiefs. Ukraine is rushing to strengthen its positions in the strategic eastern city in the Donetsk province of the Donbas region.