Russia on Saturday launched its largest drone attack against Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv since the start of its invasion, according to local officials.

Russia has showered Ukraine with a new wave of drone attacks overnight, the Ukrainian Air Force reported on Wednesday morning.

Russia launched several waves of drone attacks on Kyiv yesterday overnight for the second night in a row, stepping up its assaults on the Ukrainian capital after several weeks of pause.

The Russian capital has come under attack from drones regularly since May, with Russian officials blaming Ukraine. Military analysts commented at the time that the early attacks deployed Ukrainian locally made drones which could not carry as heavy a payload as the Iranian-made Shaheds used by Russia.

Russia escalated its attacks on the Ukrainian capital after several weeks of halt, by launching several drone attacks on the Kyiv, Poltava and Cherkasy regions of Ukraine, Al Jazeera reported, citing Ukrainian officials.

Vladimir Zavadsky is the seventh Russian general whose death has been confirmed in the war. Meanwhile, Ukraine is shifting its wartime strategy amid the winter and repeated Russian drone attacks. DW has the latest.

The governor of Russia’s Voronezh region says Vladimir Zavadsky died at a combat post in the ‘special operation zone’.

Russia confirms death of seventh major general since invasion of Ukraine - Ukraine’s running tally of senior Russian generals killed in the war is considerably higher