During the massive Shahed attack on Ukraine on the night of July 31, the Russian forces also launched a significant number of decoy drones to exhaust and gather intelligence on the Ukrainian air defense systems, according to Andrii Yusov, a representative of the Defense Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. “There’s nothing really new here. The enemy has long been using combined strikes. We’ve witnessed massive missile strikes, massive drone strikes, and simultaneous attacks (missiles and drones),” said Yusov, responding to a question about why Russian bombers took off during the…