Russia comes under large Ukrainian drone attack

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Russia says Ukraine has launched heavy drone attacks targeting more than a dozen regions overnight. The defence ministry said Russia shot down more than five hundred drones. Officials say three people were killed and seventeen injured. Drones are reported to have hit several buildings, including near a city oil refinery. Also in the programme: Lebanon and Israel agree to extend their ceasefire; and the bestselling memoir The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind becomes a musical. Presenter Julian Worricker is joined by Nadim Houry, the executive director of the Arab Reform Initiative (ARI), and Orysia Lutsevych deputy director of the Russia and Eurasia programme and head of the Ukraine forum at Chatham House. (Photo: Russian security personnel stand guard next to a pickup truck equipped with a machine gun near the Kremlin in central Moscow, Russia, May 15, 2026. CREDIT: REUTERS/Anastasia Barashkova)