Allies rush thousands of drones to Ukraine as Russia unleashes deadly missile barrages

Ukraine’s friends pledged a monolithic caller subject assistance package Wednesday, including 120,000 drones from nan U.K., arsenic Russia launched hundreds of drones and ballistic missiles successful caller overnight strikes.

The commitments came arsenic Kyiv warned of escalating Russian bombardments and urgently pressed for much aerial defenses.

Russia launched 324 drones and 3 ballistic missiles astatine Ukraine overnight Wednesday, Ukrainian officials said, portion of a broader surge successful aerial assaults, according to Reuters.

Russian strikes deed much than a half a twelve areas of Ukraine down nan beforehand statement connected Tuesday and Wednesday, The Associated Press reported.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is turning battlefield invention into bargaining power, offering anti-drone systems to Middle Eastern friends while seeking much air-defense support arsenic nan warfare pinch Russia drags into its 4th year. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Between November and March alone, Moscow fired astir 27,000 Shahed-type drones, astir 600 cruise missiles and 462 ballistic missiles, according to Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov.

"Every time we request aerial defense missiles—every time Russia continues its strikes," Zelenskyy said successful a station connected Telegram.

The latest attacks struck aggregate regions down nan beforehand lines, sidesplitting an 8-year-old boy successful nan central Cherkasy region and injuring a female successful confederate Zaporizhzhia, according to Ukrainian officials.

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Firefighters put retired nan occurrence successful a multi-story flat building pursuing a Russian rocket onslaught successful Kharkiv, Ukraine, connected Saturday, March 7, 2026. (Andrii Marienko/AP)

The war, which began pinch Russia’s full-scale penetration successful February 2022, has now stretched beyond 3 years.

Defense leaders from astir 50 countries met virtually Wednesday to coordinate subject assistance and boost weapons accumulation and particularly aerial defense systems.

The convention was led by German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius and British Defense Secretary John Healey, pinch NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte besides present. The United States was represented by Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby.

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Several countries besides announced caller contributions to Ukraine. Germany and Ukraine agreed connected a 4 billion-euro ($4.7 billion) defense package, while Norway pledged 9 cardinal euros (about $10.6 billion) successful assistance.

The Netherlands said it will walk 248 cardinal euros ($293 million) to nutrient drones for Ukraine. The United Kingdom pledged 120,000 drones.

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Russia pushed back connected nan expanded support, informing that European efforts to boost drone accumulation for Ukraine consequence deepening their engagement successful nan conflict.

The Russian Defense Ministry said nan decisions by European countries to proviso drones to Ukraine was starring to an escalation of nan military-political business and a "creeping transformation" into Ukraine’s strategical support base, TASS reported.