Watch: Ukraine's race to counter a new type of Russian drone To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Ukraine's race to counter a new type of Russian drone Close Russian attacks on Ukraine are becoming more devastating than before because of their new jet-powered drones, which are harder to shoot down. Russia launched nearly 3,000 of these new drones in August alone and while Kyiv has used missiles and fighter jets to fight against them, it is proving too expensive. Ukraine is now in a race to develop low-cost weapons that can counter them. The BBC's Abdujalil Abdurasulov spoke with Ukrainian air defence units about how they are fighting against this new threat.

Lithuania ready to'fight back' but has evacuation plans in face of Russia threats, PM tells BBC To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Figure caption, 'We will fight back' if Russia attacks, Lithuanian PM says Lithuania's prime minister has told the BBC his country has made evacuation plans in the face of threats from Russia, but added they will not surrender if attacked. Prime Minister Mindaugas Sinkevičius told Newsnight that Lithuanians feel constantly threatened by Russia, in part because of drones entering the nation's airspace. He told Newsnight if his country was attacked, we will fight back... we will engage. But he said there were plans for a variety of scenarios and used an example of getting elderly citizens out of cities smoothly and avoiding traffic jams.

Russia's elections had few surprises - but how the Kremlin uses the results is far from clear Many things about Russia are hard to predict. In a political system tightly controlled by the Kremlin, the party of power - United Russia - had been widely expected to maintain its grip on parliament. No other party came close. Preliminary results suggest that United Russia is on course to retain its constitutional majority in the State Duma. And that's after more than four and a half years of war against Ukraine, which have resulted in huge battlefield losses for the Russian army, sparked economic hardship, as well as petrol shortages due to Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian oil facilities.

Is the war entering a new phase? Polls have closed in Russia's first wartime parliamentary elections, with the ruling United Russia party on course to win the tightly controlled vote. The Kremlin wants the elections, the first parliamentary vote since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, to showcase popular support for the war and legitimise its action. The drone strikes on Sunday killed at least three people in the Moscow region and two more in the Russian-held part of Ukraine's Kherson region, including an election official, according to the region's governor and the election commission. Russian authorities also reported attacks on the country's electronic voting systems and communication lines during the polls, but said the electoral process was mostly smooth.

Is the war entering a new phase? This is the moment a drone exploded as it hit an apartment building in Moscow. Russian authorities say more than 1,600 drones were launched from Ukraine, killing at least two people and causing damage to a major refinery. Gaza's children return to classrooms after years of Israeli attacks'There will be a very sizeable Saudi response' to Houthi attacks

Ukraine launched more than 1,000 drones and missiles at Russia in what Moscow is calling the largest attack of the war, striking oil infrastructure in the Moscow region.

Is the war entering a new phase? At least two people have been killed and a major refinery has been damaged as hundreds of drones targeted the Russian capital, Moscow, and its surrounding region on the final day of the country's parliamentary elections . Moscow's Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Sunday that more than 1,600 drones had been intercepted and shot down, 450 of which were heading for Moscow. "The unprecedented attack was clearly planned with the aim of disrupting the elections. The enemy did not succeed," he said on Telegram.

Two killed in'massive' Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow region, says Russia At least two people have been killed and six injured in a massive overnight Ukrainian drone attack on the Moscow region, Governor Andrei Vorobyev has said. Vorobyev said 249 drones had been shot down, and he reported fires in several residential houses. A local warehouse was also ablaze. In the capital Moscow, an oil refinery was damaged, and flight restrictions were in place at two airports. Earlier, a Ukraine official said seven people, including two children, were killed in Russian attacks in the Kyiv and Sumy regions on Saturday.

People walk past a sign reading No drone zone in an alley in Beijing on Sept. 14. | AFP-JIJI Beijing - Drone owners in Beijing flocked to designated buy-back sites in recent days, looking to sell their devices for as much as possible ahead of an impending citywide ban. New rules in the Chinese capital ban not just the flying of unmanned aerial vehicles but the possession or storage of them, meaning owners have until November 15 to get rid of their drones. At several authorized buyer sites across the city, reporters witnessed queues of people waiting for staff to appraise their drones and negotiate prices. All sites had a visible police presence, indicating the sensitivity of the new laws, and most people there did not want to talk to reporters. At the flagship store for the world's largest drone-maker DJI in Beijing's business district, around a dozen people queued on Thursday morning hoping to sell their drones back for a reasonable price.

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