Pantsir and Tor anti-air systems, two radars: what Ukraine’s drone forces destroyed in the first 48 hours of May

Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces (SBS) destroyed two Russian air defense systems and two radars across occupied territories in the first two days of May 2026, the SBS commander Robert "Madyar" Brovdi reported on 3 May. The 1-2 May haul follows a 38-unit April for the same forces — a tally that has been opening corridors for Ukrainian deep strikes on Russian oil and defense industry deeper inside Russian-held territory and inside Russia itself.

What was destroyed on 1-2 May

The targets, all in occupied territories:

• A Pantsir-S1 air defense missile-and-gun system in Novyi Svit, occupied Donetsk Oblast (SBS 1st Separate Center)
• A Tor surface-to-air missile system in Markivska, occupied Luhansk Oblast (SBS 1st Separate Center)
• A P-18 surveillance radar in Heraskivka, occupied Luhansk Oblast (Phoenix unit of the State Border Guard Service, under SBS command)
• A P-18 surveillance radar in Sofiivka, occupied Zaporizhzhia Oblast (SBS 1st Separate Center)

The same operation hit:

• The Mariupol base of the Russian "Rubikon" drone unit (9th "Kairos" Battalion, 414th "Birds of Madyar" Brigade)

A massive fire continues in Mariupol today after Ukrainian strikes:

• The Kamianuvate base of the Russian "Storm" drone unit, occupied Donetsk Oblast (9th "Kairos" Battalion, 414th Brigade)
• The base of a Russian unit in Stepok, occupied Zaporizhzhia Oblast (9th "Kairos" Battalion, 414th Brigade)
• A telecommunications center in Mariupol (SBS 1st Separate Center)
• Six airspace control system units across occupied territories (SBS 412th Nemesis Brigade jointly with the 1st Separate Center)
• A Russian repair base in Kadiyivka, occupied Luhansk Oblast (SBS 1st Separate Center)

April's scoreboard: 38 Russian air defense and radar units gone

In a separate post, Brovdi laid out the April tally: 25 Russian surface-to-air missile complexes and 13 radar and electronic warfare units destroyed by Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces over the month.

April's surface-to-air missile breakdown:

• 7 Tor systems
• 5 Tor-M2 systems
• 5 Buk systems
• 3 Pantsir systems
• 3 Osa systems
• 1 ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft gun on an MT-LB chassis
• 1 S-350

April's radar and electronic warfare breakdown:

• 5 unidentified radar stations
• 2 Zoopark counter-battery radars
• 1 Kasta radar
• 1 Nebo-M radar
• 1 P-37 "Mech" radar
• 1 Palantin electronic warfare complex
• 1 Ay-Petri radio-technical battalion radar complex
• 1 92N6E radar from the S-400 system

"Sequential and regular destruction of air defense systems at the operational level opens corridors for scaling up deep strikes on the military-industrial complex and fuel-energy sectors of the worms in the swamps (Russian troops in Russia, - Ed.)," Brovdi wrote.