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Russia: Massive Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow
Vladimir Putin's party has unsurprisingly won a large majority in Sunday's legislative elections, marked by computer hacking and Ukrainian drone attacks to which Moscow has promised a response.
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Drones and snipers: Trump announces a "military complex" in the arch of Washington's triumph
American President Donald Trump revealed that the bow of the triumph he plans to build in Washington D.C. will serve as a "first-class military complex," with the capacity to house drones and snipers, as well as to store ammunition. The transformation of the monument was decided "at the express request of the Armed Forces" and for reasons of national security, added the Republican, which pursues a controversial reform of the urban landscape of the American capital.
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Ukraine launches massive drones attack on Russia in full parliamentary elections
United Nations The Ukrainian Army launched 1,110 drones in the early morning of 20 September against Russian territory, about 450 of them against the capital, in what the mayor of Moscow called "the biggest drones attack" since the beginning of the war.
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Ukraine launched more than a thousand drones to Russia; Moscow accuses Kiev of trying to disrupt the elections
According to the mayor of Moscow, hundreds of Ukrainian drones launched an unprecedented offensive against the Russian capital and nearby regions. Although most were intercepted, several managed to evade air defence and hit residential buildings. The attack takes place in the midst of an intensification of offensives on both sides: in Kiev, Russian shelling left several dead, while Moscow accuses Ukraine of trying to disrupt the elections.
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450 drones, three dead and dozens wounded, in Ukraine's "biggest drones attack" in Moscow
The Ukrainian Army launched 1,110 drones in the early morning of 20 September against Russian territory, about 450 of them against the capital, in what the mayor of Moscow called "the biggest drones attack" since the beginning of the war. The offensive takes place on the last day of the parliamentary elections to renew the State Duma, which Putin promotes as a war support poll. Meanwhile, Russian attacks in Ukraine kill five people, including three children.
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Ukraine strikes Moscow with about 450 drones in the biggest attack on the Russian capital to date
The authorities reported at least two deaths and 20 injuries as a result of the bombing.
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Moscow and its region targeted by hundreds of Ukrainian drones
The Russian authorities announced on Sunday 20 September that Moscow and its region had been targeted during the night of hundreds of Ukrainian drones, who killed two, on the third and last day of the parliamentary elections in the country. Our correspondent in Ukraine Gulliver Cragg tells us more.
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Russia’s drones threaten Kyiv-bound Western officials as war effort stalls
Russia strikes Ukraine’s border crossings with Poland and Moldova as its offensives peter out in the east.
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Live: Hundreds of drones target Moscow on the first day of Russian legislatures
Russian air defence detected 350 Ukrainian drones flying towards Moscow in the night on Friday, the first day of the parliamentary and local elections in Russia, said city mayor Sergei Sobianin. Most of the equipment was destroyed on the way, 64 of which were nearing the capital. Follow our direct.
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EU wants drones to spray pesticides, but it could backfire
The EU wants to lift a decades-old ban on spraying pesticides from the air, allowing drones to be used for greater precision. But experts warn the plan could lead to even more pesticides being used in agriculture.
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Drones offer alternative to balloons for weather research
Pre-programmed flights gather data at different altitudes then return to bases to recharge and download Weather happens in the boundary layer, the atmosphere from ground level to a few thousand metres, but this can be difficult to study in detail: weather stations are too low, and aircraft are expensive. Instrumented weather balloons are the traditional solution, and thousands are released every day. But these are at the mercy of the wind and use irreplaceable helium. Drones offer an alternative and the US company Meteomatics has taken the idea further with Meteobase, a base station on the gro