Ukraine’s drone units are steadily dismantling the air defenses, fuel supplies, and rail links that keep Russia’s war effort running across occupied territory, according to the Unmanned Systems Forces. The force used a late-June report to tally its strikes on Russian radars and missile systems over the past month and year. It also listed fresh hits stretching from occupied Crimea to deep inside Russia.
Kyiv is pushing its strikes ever deeper into the Russian rear, choking the fuel and supply lines that feed the front in a slow logistics lockdown. Russia guards that rear with a layered air-defense net of radars and missile batteries, so every system knocked out tears another hole in the shield and clears a path for the next, deeper strike.
The occupied Crimean peninsula sits at the center of it all as Russia’s main southern supply hub, fed through a handful of chokepoints: the Kerch Strait crossing, ferries, and a land corridor that Ukraine keeps hitting until fuel runs short and the occupation starves from behind.
Units of the Unmanned Systems Forces struck 31 Russian air defense assets in June alone, the force reported. By the force’s own count, 194 elements of Russia’s air-defense network have gone down since January.
The count runs far higher over the unit’s full life. Since the Unmanned Systems Forces became a full branch of the Armed Forces on 11 June 2025, crews have struck 276 air defense assets. These include 169 surface-to-air missile systems and anti-aircraft guns, 76 radar stations, and 31 electronic warfare systems.
The operators also logged hits on 426 mobile radars and 3,838 mobile jamming systems. Those sit outside Russia’s main air defense network but guard individual military sites.
Between 27 and 29 June, the force struck Russian air defenses, fuel sites, and military logistics, it said on X. The operations ran in coordination with the group’s Deep Strike Center.
In occupied Crimea, the 1st separate center struck a Pantsir-S1 gun-and-missile system, an ST-68 radar, and a 48Ya6-K1 Podlyot low-altitude radar.
Also in occupied Crimea, the 412th “Nemesis” brigade hit fuel tank railcars. In Zaporizhzhia Oblast, it struck a fuel and lubricants storage site.
ukrainian drone force wrecked almost 200 russian air defense assets down since year-start—31 lanuchers radars alone · post thermal footage strike fuel depot near melitopol occupied zaporizhzhia oblast 29 2026
Thermal footage of a Ukrainian drone strike on a Russian fuel depot near Melitopol, occupied Zaporizhzhia Oblast, 29 June 2026, by the 412th “Nemesis” brigade.
In Zaporizhzhia Oblast, the same brigade struck two Russian fuel tankers. The 3rd Battalion of the 414th “Magyar’s Birds” brigade hit another.
In Russia’s Bryansk Oblast, the 413th “Raid” regiment struck a locomotive used for Russian military logistics.
In Kherson Oblast, the 20th “K-2” brigade struck a Russian harbor tug.
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