Russia has carried out one of the largest-scale aerial attacks using Shahed strike drones and a Kh-47M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missile, the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports. During the night of August 4,

The attack on the airfield in Saky in occupied Crimea also hit an ammunition storage depot, according to Ukraine's Security Service (SBU). Newsweek has contacted the Russian Defense Ministry for comment.

Russia launched a large-scale aerial attack on Ukraine using 162 Shahed-type attack drones, various types of decoy drones and one Kh-47M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missile on the night of 3-4 August. Ukrainian air defence forces have destroyed 161 Russian drones.

During the night of August 5, Russia launched a massive attack on Ukraine using ballistic missiles and nearly fifty drones, most of them Iranian-made Shaheds, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Twenty-nine of the drones were intercepted. Seventeen drones and the missile targeted several sites in eastern Ukraine. Damage from the intercepted drones was also reported at three sites in the southern and northeastern parts of the country.

Tonight, in the morning and afternoon of August 4, the Khmelnytskyi region suffered another Russian attack with drones and missiles, says Serhii Tiurin, head of the Khmelnytskyi Regional Military Administration.

Russian missile strikes on Mykolaiv injured seven people, while Ukraine's air force intercepted 60 drones. Ukrainian forces hit an oil depot in Russia's Sochi. View on euronews