Russia batters Ukraine with more than 700 drones in record attack

Russia has fired a record 728 drones at Ukraine, hours after US President Donald Trump pledged to send more defensive weapons to Kyiv and aimed unusually sharp criticism at Russia’s president. It was the latest in a series of escalating air assaults in recent weeks involving hundreds of drones in addition to ballistic missiles, straining Ukrainian air defences at a perilous moment in the war. Kyiv’s military downed almost all of the drones but some of the six hypersonic missiles launched by Russia caused unspecified damage, air force spokesperson Yurii Ihnat said on Ukrainian television. Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the strike…