LONDON -- Russia launched an unusually large drone attack on Ukraine overnight into Tuesday, shortly before Moscow's representatives opened talks with a U.S. delegation in Saudi Arabia on ending Russia's three-year full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Russia attacked Ukraine with 167 strike drones and various types of decoy UAVs. In addition, the enemy launched two ballistic missiles, the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports. During the massive air attack: ・167 drones were launched from the Russian cities of Oryol,

Ukraine's air defense systems successfully intercepted 106 drones across multiple oblasts, including Kharkiv, Poltava, Sumy, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Kyiv, Kirovohrad, Khmelnytskyi, Zhytomyr, Dnipropetrovsk,