Ukraine says it destroyed Russian warplanes in one of its biggest drone attacks

The operating room destroyed by a Russian missile attack at DTEK’s power plant in Ukraine (Evgeniy Maloletka/AP)

Ukrainian officials said on Friday they had used a barrage of drones to destroy at least six military aircraft and badly damage eight others at an airfield in Russia’s Rostov region.

Russian defence officials, however, claimed they intercepted 44 Ukrainian drones and that only a power substation was damaged in the attack.