Here, engineers use 3D printers, composite materials, and carbon fiber to build the drones for strikes deep inside Russia that are turning the tide of war. Why We Wrote This The story of the Ukraine war this summer has been the shift – on the battlefield, and in the adversaries’ minds – wrought by Ukraine’s drone strikes deep into Russia. Strikes against Russia – including targets in Moscow – sometimes involve hundreds of drones launched at a time, to overwhelm local air defenses. Ukraine’s strikes should be “relentless,” he says, because they “give Russians the opportunity to feel that this war is not far, that it is near.” Reuters Smoke billows after Ukrainian drone attacks, according to local authorities, in Podolsk, Russia, July 20, 2026.