Ukrainian drone strikes have heightened anxiety across Moscow ahead of this year’s May 9 parade on Red Square, where President Vladimir Putin will be watching with other leaders.

A Ukrainian military spokesperson said the deployment signals that Russian forces are facing some trouble in Chasiv Yar.

FLIR states that rather than using one-time use drones, future conflicts will need loitering munitions that are recoverable and reusable.

Russia on Friday paraded combat drones that its forces use in the war in Ukraine on Moscow's Red Square in what state TV said was a first.

The Russian Su-30 — a multi-role fighter jet with an estimated value of $50 million — was engulfed in flames mid-air before crashing into the sea, where the ruthless domain of Neptune

Either intentionally or unintentionally, these users miscaptioned the footage, however. In reality, the video appeared on the internet on or around April 29, 2025, and depicted a Russian drone exploding over Ukraine, not an Indian drone Pakistani forces shot down. We know this based on the following observations.

Russia’s best drone unit just flew an un-jammable attack drone at least six miles behind the front line in eastern Ukraine and blew up one of the Ukrainian army’s precious High-Mobility ...

Western militaries are trying to develop drones capable of operating in the Arctic, where there's growing rivalry between the West, Russia, and China.