From the evening of 28 February and overnight into 1 March, Russian invaders attacked Ukraine with 123 strike UAVs, including Shahed, Gerbera and Italmas drones, as well as other types of unmanned aerial vehicles, launched from the directions of Kursk, Millerovo, Primorsko-Akhtarsk and Hvardiiske in the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Around 70 of them were Shahed drones.