Pictures have appeared on social media showing work in Ukraine to turn a tethered aerostat – what is more colloquially called a balloon – into an elevated platform for launching kamikaze drones at incoming long-range one-way attack drones.

Fragments of an unidentified kamikaze drone were found in Russian-controlled areas in Ukraine. Pictures of the wreckage appeared on the Telegram platform. The drone resembles a Ukrainian loitering munition with a distinctive X-shaped wing,

Several Ukrainian drones were intercepted and destroyed over Moscow and the Moscow region overnight, with some coming as close as two miles away from the Kremlin.