{"id":1379910,"date":"2026-04-09T10:05:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/russia-plans-to-significantly-increase-its-unmanned-aerial-vehicle-uav-forces\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T10:05:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:05:50","slug":"russia-plans-to-significantly-increase-its-unmanned-aerial-vehicle-uav-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/russia-plans-to-significantly-increase-its-unmanned-aerial-vehicle-uav-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia plans to significantly increase its unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) forces."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>As of early April, the number of Russian unmanned forces was 101,000, but the enemy wants to increase it to 165,500 by the end of the year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This was stated by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksandr Syrsky, citing intelligence data.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;The Ukrainian Defense Forces are maintaining the strategic initiative and preventing Russian troops from resuming a large-scale offensive&#8230; For four months now, since December 2025, our unmanned systems units have been neutralizing more enemy personnel than they are recruiting,&#8221; he reported.<\/p>\n<p> According to him, in March, compared to February, the total number of Russian personnel losses due to the work of Ukrainian unmanned aerial systems units increased by 29%.<\/p>\n<p> Syrsky emphasizes that UAV units carry out, on average, more than 11,000 combat missions per day, and in March they hit more than 150,000 verified occupier targets.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;At the same time, the enemy is not standing still. According to our intelligence, as of early April, the occupiers have expanded their unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) force to 101,000 troops, and plan to increase it to 165,500 by the end of 2026. Therefore, we have no right to stop voting.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of early April, the number of Russian unmanned forces was 101,000, but the enemy wants to increase it to 165,500 by the end of the year. This was stated by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksandr Syrsky, citing intelligence data. &#8220;The Ukrainian Defense Forces are maintaining the strategic initiative and preventing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1302275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,76875],"class_list":["post-1379910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1379910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1302275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1379910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1379910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}