Small, maneuverable and impossible to jam, Russia’s best fiber-optic drones can—in the hands of skilled operators—slip into the buildings and dugouts sheltering Ukrainian vehicles. A video circulated by Russian sources on or before Monday depicts a warhead-laden quadcopter drone easing under a tarp and into a barn where a Ukrainian Bohdana wheeled howitzer was parked.

The Ukrainian air force said it shot down the ballistic Iskander-M missile and 79 of the drones, while another 35 drones did not reach their targets likely due to electronic warfare countermeasures. In the southern region of Odesa,