Russia attacked cities across Ukraine, hitting energy infrastructure and wounding at least 15 people, authorities said.

Russian forces attacked Kharkiv with a drone on Friday, July 18. A strike was recorded near a residential area, according to the Telegram channels of Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov and Head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Oleh Syniehubov.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia fired more than 700 attack and decoy drones at Ukraine overnight, topping previous nightly barrages for the third time in two weeks, part of Moscow’s intensifying aerial and ground assault in the three-year war, Ukrainian officials said Wednesday.

Hours later, Russia launched a glide bomb and a drone at the front-line town of Kostyantynivka in eastern Ukraine, killing four civilians and injuring a fifth, the prosecutor’s office said. The drone struck a car in which a married couple were travelling, killing the 39-year-old woman and 40-year-old man on the spot, it said.

The appearance of FPV drones with fiber-optic control broke away from the radio-frequency logic of modern warfare and presented new challenges for Ukraine’s Defense Forces. What are these drones, and how is Ukraine trying to counter them–read in the RBC-Ukraine's material below.