Since the beginning of the year, Ukrainian drones have struck more than 800,000 enemy targets
Since the beginning of the year, the Ukrainian Defense Forces’ unmanned systems units have struck more than 800,000 verified enemy targets and neutralized approximately 167,000 Russian soldiers. Currently, unmanned technologies account for over 90% of all strikes against the enemy on the front lines and in the rear.
Ukrainian drones are systematically destroying the occupiers’ logistics and military capabilities. Among the more than 800,000 confirmed targets are enemy personnel, artillery, air defense systems (ADS), multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS), reconnaissance UAVs, ground-based robotic systems (GRS), motor vehicles, command posts, ammunition depots, and electronic warfare (EW) systems. May proved to be the most successful month since the beginning of the year, during which 31,530 invaders were killed or seriously wounded and over 181,000 targets were struck.
To motivate and provide operational support to units, the military operates a special internal system: for every confirmed destruction of equipment or personnel, units receive points, which they exchange via the Brave1 Market platform for new drones, GRCs, EW systems, and necessary components. This mechanism also helps the government analyze the effectiveness of various technologies and quickly scale the best solutions across the entire army. According to a government official, Ukrainian defenders are currently creating an entirely new global doctrine of warfare in real time, wearing down the enemy simultaneously in the air, on the ground, and in the economic sphere.
Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov reported this on Telegram.
On the night of June 21, the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ unmanned aerial vehicle units struck a number of Russian occupation forces’ targets in the temporarily occupied Crimea, as well as in the occupied territories of the Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions.
On June 20, Ukrainian defense forces struck the Tyumen Oil Refinery (“Antipinsky”) in Russia, located more than 2,000 km from the Ukrainian border.
Ukrainian drones attacked the Russian ferry “Panagia,” which, according to Russian sources, was being used to transport military cargo from the Krasnodar Krai to the temporarily occupied Crimea.
On the night of Saturday, June 21, drones attacked the port in Kerch in the temporarily occupied Crimea and the “Kavkaz” port in the Krasnodar Krai of the Russian Federation, resulting in fires at the facilities.
In the Dnipro direction, particularly on the temporarily occupied left bank of the Kherson region, Russian troops are increasingly facing supply and logistics challenges. Ukrainian defense forces have intensified pressure on key supply routes, further complicating the movement and delivery of resources to the occupying forces.
A Ukrainian drone attack on targets in the Moscow region on Thursday served as yet another example that, according to CNN, confirms the effectiveness of Ukraine’s strategy of overwhelming Russian air defense systems through the massive use of drones.
