Pictures have appeared on social media showing work in Ukraine to turn a tethered aerostat – what is more colloquially called a balloon – into an elevated platform for launching kamikaze drones at incoming long-range one-way attack drones.

Several Ukrainian drones were intercepted and destroyed over Moscow and the Moscow region overnight, with some coming as close as two miles away from the Kremlin.

Ukrainian air defense shot down 16 drones over the Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhya, Donetsk, and Kharkiv oblasts, the Air Force said. Read also: Russia targets Kryvyi Rih with deadly morning missile attack Nine drone simulators were also detected but caused no damage.