350,000 Targets Destroyed: Ukraine’s Drones Rewrite the Rules of War

Over nearly a year of operations, Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces have struck and destroyed 350,000 verified enemy targets while carrying out more than 1.65 million combat missions, underscoring the growing role of drone warfare on the battlefield.

According to him, the SBS group was created on June 11, 2025, under the first order of the new commander and immediately brought together 12 units within the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

As of June 4, 2026, 358 days after the group’s formation, SSS operators had reached a mark of over 100,000 confirmed enemy casualties. Of these, 53,477 were irreparable losses, and another 46,605 were medical.

In total, the crews of the Unmanned Systems Forces carried out approximately 5,000 combat sorties per day, and the number of enemy targets hit or destroyed reached 350,000.

Among the most important results of the work of the SSS:

• • 248 air defense systems;

• • 817 tanks;

• • 1,379 armored personnel carriers, infantry fighting vehicles, and other armored vehicles;

• • 4890 artillery pieces;

• • 342 self-propelled artillery units;

• • 281 multiple launch rocket system;

• • 26,430 units of logistics equipment;

• • 29,903 reconnaissance drones;

• • 7633 Shahed and Gerber type drones;

• • 13 aircraft and helicopters;

• • 10848 drone launch points.

Brovdi noted that plans for the next year have already been formulated. According to him, the SSS expects to achieve a target of 200,000 enemy casualties and 650,000 targets destroyed.

“Every third occupier and every third hostile target is the result of the SBS’s work. ‘Kyiv in three days’ will never happen again,” the commander emphasized.

As a reminder, Ukraine has contracted a record-breaking batch of 155mm long-range artillery shells for the Defense Forces. Thanks to competition between manufacturers, the state managed to save billions of hryvnias and purchase more ammunition for the front.