Moscow claims to have downed almost 300 Ukrainian drones overnight as Volodymyr Zelensky prepares to meet German chancellor Friedrich Merz in Germany to continue peace talks.The Russian defence ministry earlier claimed to have intercepted 100 drones,

Ukraine's drone attacks caused widespread disruption across Russia, with Moscow's airports being forced to close and damage to residential buildings reported across the capital

The textbook "Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: 8th and 9th Grades" has been published and will be used in schools across Russia.

Moscow has escalated its air attacks in recent months even as Donald Trump pushes the sides to halt the fighting and as negotiators held their first direct talks in more than three years.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov warned on Tuesday that Moscow will retaliate for recent Ukrainian drone attacks on targets inside Russia. In response, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky promised Kyiv's own “symmetrical response” should Russian attacks continue.

This night, long-range drones of the Security Service of Ukraine staged a "slamming" attack on a strategic enterprise of the Russian military-industrial complex (MIC) - the Bereznyak Raduga plant, which is located in the city of Dubna, 130 kilometers north of Moscow.

Ukraine's military said on Wednesday it struck several Russian weapon production sites during a major overnight drone attack that Moscow said its air defences had repelled.

Explosions in Moscow were heard overnight as air defences targeted Ukrainian drones. As a result of the air attack, a fire broke out in the Elma technopark in Zelenograd, 37 miles from Moscow, with one of its buildings damaged. According to Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin, 33 drones were reportedly shot down.