Air-raid warnings were issued across multiple Ukrainian regions including Kyiv, Kherson, and Mykolaiv due to drone and missile threats overnight.
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Air-raid warnings were issued in Kherson, Mykolaiv, Cherkasy, Poltava, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Khmelnytskyi, Zhytomyr, Kirovohrad, Rivne, and Ternopil oblasts due to drone threats.
Russian forces may have used new long-range Italmas drones and their variants for the first time in a recent attack on Kyiv Oblast
Russian invaders used new long-range Italmas drones and their derivatives for the first time in Ukraine during a drone attack on the Kyiv region.
ISW reported that Russian propagandists claimed Italmas drones are lighter and harder to detect than Shahed drones, but offer a lighter payload.
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Extracted: 2026-07-18T17:02:18.049Z
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