A resident sits outside a building destroyed by an airstrike in Bila Tserkva, Ukraine. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP-Getty Images)
Ukraine is accusing Russia of striking deep inside its territory with what it says are "kamikaze" drones. An attack this week in the town of Bila Tserkva, just 50 miles south of Kyiv, is the closest the drone attacks have come to the country's capital and poses a new challenge to the Ukrainian military.
Ukraine has been sounding the alarm about Russia's increasing use of drones, which it says are being supplied by Iran, to hit cities far behind the front lines for weeks.
The Shahed-136 drone, which has earned the nickname "kamikaze" for destroying its target by physically crashing into it, can be equipped with a small warhead, making it an effective precision weapon, said Christopher Tuck, an expert in conflict and security at King's College London.
Moscow's troops, meanwhile, are facing mounting setbacks on the battlefield.
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