The Russians launched nearly a dozen drones into the Zaporizhzhia region on the night of July 26. Russian strikes caused fires and destroyed the house, according to Ivan Fedorov, head of the Zaporizhzhia regional military administration.

Once shrouded in secrecy, Russia ramps up drone production at Alabuga, now recruiting teens and eyeing global exports amid its war on Ukraine.

In late July 2025, amid high media interest in Derek Huffman, a Texas man who moved his family to Russia to escape LGBTQ+ values in the U.S., a claim ( archived) circulated online that Huffman had died in combat after enlisting in the Russian armed forces.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday toured a factory producing interceptor drones, increasingly seen as a solution to protecting Ukrainian cities from Russian air attacks, and said a goal had been set to make up to 1,