As snow fell in a wooded area of Ukraine, the long-range attack drones accelerated one by one down an unlit, abandoned road and their whirring engines propelled them into the night sky. The unmanned a

Russia says it shot down more than 120 drones overnight, in what would be one of the largest attacks of the war.

Ukraine is using unmanned aircraft carrying explosive warheads as part of a campaign of long-range drone attacks, aiming to inflict blows on Russia far behind the front line. Kyiv's military granted Reuters exclusive access during the launch of the drones.

Officials in Ukraine say Russia launched a barrage of drones in an overnight attack Friday, killing at least two civilians, wounding several others and damaging commercial and residential buildings. The Interior Ministry said two victims were killed by drone debris in the central Kyiv region.

Russia launched 58 drones into Ukraine. Ukrainian air defense was operating in seven regions of Ukraine, according to the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Russians launched drones into Ukraine from four directions in Russia: Orel,

Ukraine said on Friday it had struck a Russian oil refinery and a microchip factory in a huge drone attack that caused fires at the refinery's production facilities and an oil pumping station. Russia said hours earlier that its forces had repelled an overnight drone attack,