Russia just sent its most advanced drones at Ukraine and most got shot down

Here's the detail worth knowing.

Of the 136 drones launched, 93 were jet-powered Shaheds. That's the fast, modern version of Russia's strike drone. It's built to be harder to shoot down than the older, slower kind.

Ukraine still got 77 of those 93. That's about 83%.

So against the hardest drones Russia has, Ukraine's air defence just hit an 83% success rate.

And here's why that matters. This is the second mass overnight drone attack in three days.

Three nights ago, Russia fired 137 drones at Ukraine, including 49 jet-powered Shaheds. Ukraine downed or jammed 114 of them. Strikes hit 17 locations that night.

Ukraine's Air Force gave almost the same warning both times. Three nights ago it said quote "the attack is ongoing, as several enemy drones are still in Ukrainian airspace".

So Russia is now sending these mass waves every few days. And it's putting more of its expensive jet-powered drones into each one, not the cheap kind.

That costs Russia more per drone. And it means Ukraine's air defence has to hit faster, harder targets, night after night, just to keep the toll this low.

Nobody has said what was hit at the eight strike locations. Nobody has said if anyone was hurt there.

Russia hasn't said what it was aiming at. It hasn't said anything about the attack at all.

Two mass attacks in three days. Both landed Ukraine around 114 intercepts.

Whether that rate holds next time is the open question.