At Camp Pendleton, Navy medical personnel respond to a simulated attack by multiple drones that struck while troops were having chow at their forward base. The wounded are immediately taken to a field medical unit, where they are treated and stabilized before being airlifted to a hospital. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Dozens of people have been killed in a drone strike against Sudan’s largest oil processing facility carried out by the Sudanese Armed Forces.

A drone attack by the Sudanese paramilitary forces hit a kindergarten in south-central Sudan, killing 50 people, including 33 children, a doctors’ group said.

Ukrainian drone strikes building 830 meters from Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov’s residence in Grozny, prompting threats that mirror 2022 Chechen infiltration attempt on Kyiv leaders.

Russia launched a huge attack on Ukraine overnight as the country marked Armed Forces Day on Saturday, Ukraine's air force said.

Drones attacked the Russian city of Yaroslavl, located north-east of Moscow, more than 700 kilometres from the state border with Ukraine, on the night of 11-12 December. The strike caused a fire at the local oil refinery.

Russia said on Thursday that Ukraine had launched a major aerial attack with at least 287 drones downed over a number of regions including Moscow.

The protective shield built around the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site in Ukraine can no longer do its job to confine radioactive waste as a result of a drone strike earlier this year, according to the IAEA.

Last week the U.S, announced its first one-way attack drone squadron had already been formed. But it seems warheads for their LUCAS drones are still being developed.

This is perhaps the biggest difference between the war in Ukraine and other past conflicts: the massive use, by both sides, of bomb drones and drones that launch explosives while pursuing their target.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) drone strike on Dec. 5 targeted a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Russia’s Temryuk Seaport in Krasnodar Krai, triggering a massive fire that burned for three days,