Russian forces launched an attack on Ukrainian cities on the night of 11-12 August using 48 Shahed-type strike UAVs and various types of decoy drones, as well as four Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles.

Neither Ukraine nor Russia provide public information on the scale of their own cross-border drone attacks. In July, the total number of Ukrainian drones claimed downed over the course of the month was 3,

Just three days before the Trump–Putin meeting, Russia and Ukraine have launched heavy attacks, intensifying the war. Russia struck a Ukrainian training center with banned cluster munitions, killing one and injuring 11.

Vladimir Putin has deployed a vacuum bomb to ‘vaporise’ Ukrainian soldiers as deep as 12 miles inside the border region of Kursk. Russia is battling against thousands of troops after Ukraine’s biggest attack on its sovereign territory since the beginning of the full-scale invasion in February 2022.

Russia's Defense Ministry said its air defenses intercepted and destroyed a total of 39 Ukrainian drones overnight and Monday morning over several Russian regions as well as over the Crimean peninsula that Russia annexed in 2014.