Pressure is growing on airlines to re-evaluate the safety of flying to Russia as the drone war escalates.

Each side is using missiles and drones to try to pound the other into giving up, breeding ceaseless human suffering. But there is no sign that either country’s determination will weaken.

As Moscow responds to Kyiv’s growing success against conventional piston-engine Shahed drones, new Russian drone variants have increasingly threatened Ukraine. In July 2026, Moscow deployed five times as many jet-powered drones as it did in June 2025.

A Ukrainian drone attack damaged the Russian Baltic Sea port of Ust-Luga in Leningrad Oblast early on Sept. 1, regional Governor Alexander Drozdenko said.

EADaily, September 4th, 2026. The girl from The New York Times with an interesting name and surname — Cassandra Vinograd writes about the new jet "Geraniums", from which the Ukrainian "haters" cannot find salvation.

Ukraine’s Kyiv and Odesa regions have faced intense Russian aerial attacks, wounding at least eight civilians.

German officials say a drone carrying explosives was sent to the Leipzig airport and blamed Russia, which strongly denied the accusations.

Fox News foreign correspondent Jeff Paul discusses the latest on Russia's airspace and recent drone incursions on 'Special Report.'