Ukrainian drones halted Russia’s spring advance. Russia is bombing back.
It's a race. Can Ukrainian drones deplete Russian forces faster than Russian bombs deplete Ukrainian forces?
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So many Ukrainian AI drones are hunting Russian trucks they’re crossing each other’s paths
Ukraine's A.I. drones are stacking up over the Russian logistical zone, each looking for a truck to blow up.
Buk, Tor, Kasta, Tunguska—Russia’s air defense menu shrinks by $131 million in another seven days
The destruction came in the drone forces' strikes across occupied Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Russia's Bryansk Oblast over the past week.
101 air defenses ring Russia’s 9 May parade. A Ukrainian drone already got through.
A Fire Point FP-1 hit a Moscow apartment block 6 km from the Kremlin on Monday. RFE's Mark Krutov called it "quite routine."
Satellite imagery reveals Flamingo missile damage at Russian plant making Shahed navigation antennas
The imagery shows the Ukrainian cruise missile sliced into the front of the main workshop at VNIIR-Progress in Cheboksary, while two Liutyi drones hit a second building
Ukraine’s E-300 drone bombers come home full of bullet holes—and fly out again tomorrow
Ukraine's middle- and deep-strike sorties have multiplied six-fold in 10 months — and Russia's spring advance shrank 60%.
Eight Kalibrs that won’t reach Ukraine: Ukrainian Special Operations Forces struck Russian missile corvette at Primorsk
President Zelenskyy and Special Operations Forces reported that Ukraine hit the Karakurt-class corvette overnight on 3 May, along with a patrol boat, a shadow fleet tanker, and the Primorsk oil terminal.
Primorsk takes the torch from Tuapse: NASA satellites confirm fresh fires at Russia’s largest Baltic oil export terminal
Monitoring channels reported Liutyi-looking drones over Leningrad Oblast overnight on 2-3 May, with Pulkovo Airport in St. Petersburg shut down and local authorities claiming 59 drones downed.
“Just reaching the front line has become very risky”: Ukraine’s AI drones are hunting Russia’s supply vans
AI targeting cuts through Russian electronic warfare. The supply vans aren't reaching the front.
Ukrainian drones 4–0 Tuapse oil: refinery ablaze again after fourth strike last night
Cleanup from the earlier strikes is still pulling fuel and contaminated soil from the ground. The 1 May attack lit up another section of Rosneft's refinery/terminal complex.
Russia is losing ground for the first time in 27 months. Ukraine’s drones might be why.
It's increasingly evident that Ukraine's mid- and long-range drone strikes are weakening Russian combat units.
“Oil rain” reported in Perm after Ukrainian drones set Transneft pumping station ablaze 1,500 km from the war zone
Transneft hub is burning, "oil rain" reported in Perm. The Orsk oil refinery and a machine-building plant in Orenburg Oblast were also hit overnight.
More Ukrainian drones are hitting Russian supply lines. The hardened targets are fine.
Ukraine is extending its drone strikes into Russia's vulnerable logistical zone. But many drones lack hitting power.
Finishing off Russia’s seaborne oil exports: Tuapse refinery ablaze again
The Russian Black Sea export terminal's refinery burns again, four days after Russia extinguished last fires raging for days after the 20 April strike.
Ukraine’s new B-2 drone is a mystery. Its kills aren’t.
Russian air defenses are collapsing as more and more different Ukrainian drones strike as far as 200 km.
Critics said Ukraine was losing the mid-range drone war. Russia’s burning trucks disagree.
More Ukrainian drones are ranging across the Russian logistical zone to strike trucks and starve front-line regiments' of vital supplies.
Ukraine is building a bigger deep-strike drone machine — middle- and deep-strike operations both scaling up, more units from May
The drone forces say they already run more than 100,000 combat sorties a month. Now its commander is formally expanding the tiers that reach deepest into Russian territory.
The factory that makes Russia’s killer drones burned again overnight — Neptune missile attack conformed
Neptune cruise missiles struck Atlant Aero in Taganrog, where Russia builds the Molniia strike drones it fires at Ukrainian cities; local residents reported powerful explosions before dawn followed by thick black smoke above the plant.
Donetsk was Russia’s safe rear. Now AI drones hunt its supply trucks.
Relentless Ukrainian strikes on Russian air defenses are rendering wide swathes of the Russian rear area defenseless against further aerial attacks.
“Just stop oil”: Ukraine’s drones return to Tuapse — the Rosneft site where the refinery and the Black Sea export pier are one asset
Fires confirmed by satellite at the pier, tank farm, and power plant represent another round in Ukraine's sustained effort to reduce Russia's oil export revenues.