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Kyiv suffers hours of daytime air raids as Russia deploys new jet-powered drones

The Guardian UK · 31 August 2026 at 16:48

Kyiv suffers hours of daytime air raids as Russia deploys new jet-powered drones

Kyiv endures daytime strikes and air raid alerts as forces attempt to hold back new, high-speed Shahed drones Kyiv is enduring hours of daytime air raids and air raid warnings as Russia has fired 800 jet-powered drones into Ukraine in four days, using the faster weapons to sustain prolonged waves of attacks The new-model Shahed drones have a cruising speed of 200mph to 250mph, which is – about double the 115mph achieved by the piston-engine version and beyond the speed of Ukraine’s cheap interceptors, making them harder to stop.

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Kyiv suffers hours of daytime air raids as Russia deploys new jet-powered drones

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