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UKRAINE
Ukrainian servicemen from a mobile air-defence unit of the 59th Brigade fire a Soviet-made ZU-23 twin-barrel anti-aircraft autocannon at a Russian drone from a sunflower field during an air attack near Pavlohrad, in the Dnipropetrovsk region, on July 19, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russia’s deadly Geran drones, based on Iranian technology, have wreaked havoc in Ukraine since the beginning of the war three years earlier. Since May 2025, however, their numbers have increased, with hundreds of drones now harassing cities and killing civilians almost daily.