This week, Ukraine's Defense Forces set the all-time daily record in the number of destroyed Russian vehicles since the full-scale war began, Ukrainian General Staff data shows. On 29 May, Kyiv forces neutralized 483 Russian vehicles.
The figures put numbers on what Ukrainian commanders and the Defense Ministry have been calling a "logistics lockdown". It is a coordinated campaign to scale up medium-range drone strikes against Russian supply convoys, depots, command nodes, and air defense systems 20–200 kilometers behind the front.
What does record mean?
The figure pushed Russia's cumulative motor-transport losses to 100,713 since February 2022, with 7,704 vehicles destroyed in May alone, a monthly tally that military analyst Oleksandr Kovalenko of the Informational Resistance group expects to clear 8,000 by month's end.
The May 2026 surge is part of a sharp acceleration that began in March, Kovalenko noted, with each of the past three months setting fresh records.
Ukraine's "Logistics lockdown" campaign in action
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense and General Staff formalized the campaign on 27 May, announcing a $113 million program to channel funds directly to brigades hitting Russian logistics, depots, equipment, and command posts at operational depth.
Western analysts have called the result the most significant operational development of the past week: Australian military strategist Mick Ryan, in his 31 May Substack titled "Highway to Hell," wrote that the program "has entered a new phase of scale and ambition."
What 483 vehicles look like on the ground
The destruction is visible in occupied southern Ukraine. On 31 May, residents of occupied Mariupol reported that Russia had closed the Mangush-Berdiansk highway, diverting traffic onto a jammed coastal alternative via Urzuf.
The day before, Ukraine's Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) released footage of drone strikes on Russian fuel tankers, trucks, and a trailer along the Crimea–Donetsk corridor between Berdiansk, Melitopol, and Dzhankoi, Euromaidan Press reported on 29 May.
The 412th Nemesis Brigade has separately announced a "massive hunt" on Russian logistics in the south using strike "wings" developed in cooperation with the manufacturer.
