KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia fired more than 700 attack and decoy drones at Ukraine overnight, topping previous nightly barrages for the third time in two weeks, part of Moscow’s intensifying aerial and ground assault in the three-year war, Ukrainian officials said Wednesday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Russia launched its largest drone attack of the war as President Donald Trump reversed his decision to pause weapons shipments to Ukraine.

Trump’s decision to help Ukraine fight an onslaught of Russian attacks reverses a Pentagon decision to withhold defensive weapons.

U.S. President Donald Trump has voiced frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the intensification of attacks.

Late on July 3 and into the early hours of July 4, Russia battered Ukraine with more than 500 drones and missiles in the most intense aerial attack of the war, surpassing the previous record set just days earlier on June 29.

The Russian leader is convinced that Moscow’s battlefield superiority is growing, and that Ukraine’s defenses may collapse in the coming months, according to people close to the Kremlin.

Defence Secretary John Healey issues update on plans for a 'Coalition of the Willing' to keep the peace in Ukraine

Facing a numerically superior foe, Ukraine is under pressure to replenish its ranks on the battlefield where, after three years of war, recruitment is already a challenge.

Europe’s top human rights court hsa delivered two rulings against Russia, stating in the first ruling that Russia has violated international law during the conflict in Ukraine, the first time an inter

NATO scrambled warplanes overnight as Vladimir Putin unleashed hypersonic missiles and kamikaze drones in the heaviest assaults of the war on Ukraine. Kyiv revealed there were a total of 741 strikes on Ukrainian territory by the Russian armed forces, a record for the 40-month conflict.