Everyone agrees: it’s getting spoiled.

The people of Kiev, like citizens of other Ukrainian cities, have been done through much.

After three and a half years of ups and downs, they are hard and extremely flexible.

But in recent months, they are experiencing something new: the huge, coordinated waves of air attacks, including hundreds of drones and missiles, often focus on the same city.

Last night, it was the Kyiv. And also a week ago. In the middle, it was Lutsk in the far west.

Three years ago, the Iranian-supply Shahd drone was a relative novelty. I remember listening to my first, in October 2022, the southern city was dissolving a lazy arc in the night sky over Zaporizhia.

But now everyone is familiar with the sound, and its most scary recent repetition: A dive-bombings Well has done something compared to two Stuka aircraft of the German World War.

The sound of a herd of going near the drone has sent back the metro and underground car parks back to bomb shelters, metro and underground car parks for the first time after the early days of the war.

“It was made of paper like a house,” Kiev resident Katya told me that I told me after heavy bombing last night.

“We spent all night sitting in the bathroom.”

“I first went to the parking lot,” another resident Switlana told me.

“The building was shaken and I could see the fire across the river.”

Attacks do not always claim life, but they are eradicating fear and morale.

After an attack on a residential block in Kiev last week, a shocking grandmother, Mariya told me that his 11 -year -old grandson had moved to her in shelter, and said that he had understood the meaning of death for the first time.

He has every reason for being frightened. The United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission at Ukraine says that June saw the most monthly citizen casualties in three years, killing 232 people and injured over 1,300.

Many people have been killed or injured in communities close to the front rows, but others have been killed in cities away from the fight.

Danielle Bell, head of HRMMU, says, “Long -distance missiles and drone strikes across the country have caused even more death and destruction to citizens.”

Amendments in Shahd’s design It is allowed to fly much more than before and to land from higher height to your target.

Its range has also increased, up to about 2,500 km, and it is capable of carrying more deadly payload (about 50 kg of explosive to 90 kg).

Tracking maps produced by local experts show the public moving around the drone, sometimes carrying the circuit route in Ukraine before homeing at their goals.

Many – often have several – decoys in the form of half, which are designed to confuse and overwhelm aerial rescue of Ukraine.

Other, straight lines show the way for ballistic or cruise missiles: very little but weapon Russia depends on the most damage.

Analysis by the Washington -based Institute for the Study of War, reflects an increase in Russia’s drone and missile strikes in two months after the inauguration of Donald Trump in January.

The march saw a slight decline, with topical spikes, until May, when the number suddenly increased dramatically.

The new record is set with dangerous regularity.

A new monthly high of 5,429 drones was seen in June, July saw more than 2,000 in the first nine days.

With production in Russia, some reports suggest that Moscow may soon be able to set fire to more than 1,000 missiles and drones in the same night.

Kiev’s experts have warned that the country is in danger of overwhelming.

Former intelligence officer Ivan Stupak says, “If Ukraine does not get any solution to deal with these drones, we will face major problems during 2025.”

“Some of these drones are trying to reach military goods – we have to understand it – but the rest, they are destroying the apartment, falling in office buildings and causing great harm to citizens.”

For all their growing ability, drones are not particularly sophisticated weapons. But they represent another example of the huge bay in resources between Russia and Ukraine.

It also neatly shows Maxim, who is responsible for Joseph Stalin, the two leaders of the Soviet Union, that “quantity has its own quality.”

“This is a war of resources,” says Seri Kuzan of the Ukrainian Safety and Cooperation Center at Kiev.

“When the production of special missiles became very complex – very expensive, lots of components, lots of complex supply routes – they focus on this particular type of drone and developed various modifications and improvements.”

In a single attack, more drones, Kuzan, says, Ukraine struggles to shoot him as much as Hard-Pressed Air Defense Units. This forces Kiev to return to its precious supply of jets and air-to-air missiles to shoot them.

“So if the drones go as a herd, they destroy all air defense missiles,” they say.

Hence President Zelancesi Continuous appeal Ukraine’s colleagues to protect their sky. Not only with Patriot missiles – important to combat the most dangerous Russian ballistic danger – but also with a wide array of other systems.

On Thursday, the British government said it would sign a defense agreement with Ukraine to provide over 5,000 air defense missiles.

Kiev will be looking for many more such deals in the coming months.