Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky called the wave of Russian drones that struck his nation overnight into Tuesday a “record number”, the largest of the war so far, Kyiv claiming to have destroyed or disabled very nearly all targets.

Russia launched 192 aerial attacks on Ukraine overnight into Tuesday morning, the Ukrainian air force claims, the giant record-setting wave comprising of four Iskander-M ballistic missiles and 188 drones, they said. Many but not all of the drones were of the Iranian-designed Shahed one-way ‘suicide bomb’ aircraft drones, it was stated.

Ukraine alleges in its own state media to have taken out almost