#Ukraine Defence Ministry

The Ukrainian military has been steadily expanding its drone capabilities, resulting in heavier losses for Russian forces on the front line and moving Ukraine closer to its goal: eliminating more than 50,000 Russian troops per month.

Russia is routinely hit by deep strikes; Ukraine is now capable of mass-launching drones, creating its own long-range missiles, and firing them at Russian military and oil infrastructure. Four years ago, this would have been unthinkable.

In just a few years, Ukraine’s drones have gone from improvisation to striking Russia’s oil refineries 1,500 kilometers away, destroying tens of billions of dollars’ worth of enemy and killing hundreds of thousands of invading troops. Some “housewives,” indeed.

For a week straight, Ukrainian drones have struck Russia’s Baltic oil ports thousands of kilometers from the front—disrupting up to 30% of its oil exports and increasing pressure on Moscow to end the war.