Ukraine’s Drone Forces Set New Record With 801 Russian Troops Eliminated or Wounded in One Day

Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces (SBS) reported a new daily record for Russian personnel casualties on November 8, with 801 Russian troops killed or wounded in drone operations.

According to data published on the SBS’s official online dashboard, Ukrainian drone units eliminated 281 Russian soldiers and wounded another 520, marking their highest reported single-day total since the force began tracking these figures.

Over the same 24-hour period, SBS units struck a total of 2,611 Russian targets, of which 959 were destroyed. To carry out these operations, Ukrainian drone operators conducted 5,217 strike sorties and 2,376 reconnaissance flights.

Among the targets hit were 153 vehicles and pieces of specialized and engineering equipment, 39 ammunition and supply storage facilities, 77 drone launch sites, and 719 shelters and dugouts used by Russian forces.

Ukrainian drone units also reported hitting 290 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles, 141 multicopter drones, and 12 Shahed- and Gerbera-type drones.

The previous daily record for Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces was set on November 5, when drone operators struck 751 Russian troops, including 269 killed.

According to the commander of the Unmanned Systems Forces, Ukrainian drone operators had struck a total of 3,505 Russian troops and more than 11,400 other Russian targets since the beginning of November.

The latest records follow what Ukrainian officials described as Russia’s deadliest month in terms of personnel losses since the start of its full-scale invasion. On November 1, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that Russian forces had suffered 54,400 troops killed or seriously wounded in October 2026, marking their highest reported monthly personnel losses since February 2022.

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