Russian air defenses shot down 347 Ukrainian drones overnight, Russia’s Defense Ministry said Thursday, in what appeared to be a major attack after Moscow spurned Kyiv’s ceasefire earlier in the week and tension mounted over safety at Russia’s upcoming Victory Day celebrations.

The enemy was trying to distract air defenses Russia's attack on Kyiv region on the evening of May 2 was unusual. Russian forces used Parodiya decoy drones to distract Ukrainian air defenses, according to Ukrainian Defense Ministry adviserSerhii Beskrestnov (Flash).

Officials in the northeastern Sumy region said two people were killed in separate Russian drone attacks on a civilian car and a kindergarten.

Russia launched more than 200 drones on Ukraine overnight after the May 9-11 ceasefire expired. Kyiv said its offer to extend the partial truce was met with fresh strikes on civilian and energy infrastructure.

Russian drone and missile strikes carried out overnight and later on Tuesday killed at least 22 people and wounded more than 80 others, Ukrainian authorities said, hours before Kyiv was due to enact a ceasefire and three days before Moscow promised its own pause in hostilities.

Russian forces launched dozens of drones towards Kyiv overnight on May 12, hitting a residential building in the city, local officials reported. The latest attack on the Ukrainian capital comes just hours after a U.

A Russian drone attack before dawn on Ukraine’s southern city of Odesa wounded 14 people, including two children, authorities said Monday, in the latest barrage of civilian areas that have been a hallmark of Moscow’s full-scale invasion.