Kyiv suffers hours of daytime air raids as Russia deploys new jet-powered drones

<p>Volodymyr Zelenskyy says about 800 Shahed drones fired into Ukraine in four days in effort to ‘wear down’ country</p><p>Kyiv is enduring hours of daytime air raids and air raid warnings as Russia has fired 800 jet-powered drones into Ukraine in four days, using the faster weapons to sustain prolonged waves of attacks</p><p>The new-model Shahed drones have a cruising speed of 200mph to 250mph , about double the 115mph achieved by the piston-engine version and beyond the speed of Ukraine’s cheap interceptors, making them harder to stop.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/31/russia-fires-jet-powered-drones-ukraine">Continue reading...</a>