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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Dan Sabbagh in Kyiv

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

Smoke rises into the sky from the scene of a drone strike in Ukraine.
Kremlin forces have targeted supply warehouses around Kyiv, leading to food shortages. Photograph: Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA

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 , 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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