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The Ukrainian Armed Forces are actively hunting Russian air defense systems. Growing production and increasingly sophisticated drone technology enabled Ukraine to destroy twice as many enemy air defense systems and radars in April as it did in October 2025, Der Spiegel reports. Growing holes in Russia’s air defenses are weakening both the front and the rear. The former is deprived of supplies due to the destruction of the frontline supply chain, including depots containing ammunition, equipment, and gear, while the latter is left defenseless against attacks on energy infrastructure and defense industry facilities.
Ukrainian attacks are particularly serious at medium ranges, within 200 kilometers of the front line, Der Spiegel notes: drones disable medium-range air defense systems like the Tor and Buk, and sometimes even destroy more expensive ones like the S-300. While the Ukrainian Armed Forces destroyed 16 air defense systems, radars, and jamming devices in the fall of 2025, the figure from March to May 10 of this year was 37, according to WarSpotting calculations.
From January to April, medium-range drones carried out approximately 600 strikes on territories occupied by the Russian army. The situation is particularly challenging in the south, where the distance from the front to the coast can be as little as 90 km, and Ukrainian air strikes threaten the supply of troops and the Crimean Peninsula. Meanwhile, 11,211 drones were shot down over Russian territory in March, according to RIA Novosti, citing Russian Defense Ministry data—twice as many as in February. The propaganda outlet did not report how many hit their targets.
This year, Vladimir Putin and Russia’s top military leadership have increasingly exaggerated their army’s successes on the battlefield. However, since October 2025, the pace of its advance has slowed month after month, as Ukrainian forces have intensified their medium-range strikes, creating additional obstacles, according to the Institute for the Study of War or ISW. The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) notes that Russian leadership has increasingly exaggerated battlefield successes this year. However, the pace of the Russian advance has slowed every month since October 2025 as Ukrainian forces ramped up medium-range strikes. ISW adds that Russian military bloggers have frequently pointed out a shortage of air defense missiles amid these successful drone raids.
Experts from the ISW conclude that the outcome for Russia is highly unfavorable. "In the spring of 2026, Russian troops are demonstrating worse results on the battlefield than in 2025, when the Kremlin formulated its claims to receive the entire Donetsk region, including uncaptured territories," the institute states.
Peter Dickinson, editor of the Atlantic Council’s UkraineAlert service, notes that a significant portion of Russian air defense was moved to the front to protect troops and logistics after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Now, Ukrainian drone units "prioritize the destruction of air defenses, which further exacerbates the Kremlin’s supply problems."
Dickinson writes that Russia’s vast territories in the rear, which historically served as a defense, are now becoming a burden. "From Charles XII of Sweden to Napoleon Bonaparte and Adolf Hitler—a whole galaxy of potential conquerors invaded Russian territory, but the vastness of this country swallowed their armies. Now Ukraine is trying to flip this military logic on its head with a strategic bombing campaign aimed at exploiting Russia’s vast size and turning it from a key advantage into a fatal weakness." Recently, Ukrainian operators from the Unmanned Systems Forces struck several Russian military targets in the occupied Donetsk region, including a PRV-16 radar height finder and a P-18 early warning radar.
During operations conducted alongside the SBS DeepStrike Center, the military utilized FP-2 medium-range strike drones to hit enemy systems near Huselske and Zelenyi Yar. In addition to the radar equipment, the strikes successfully targeted fuel and lubricant depots, ammunition warehouses, and temporary deployment points in Valerianivka, Donetsk, and Bahatyr.
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