Ukrainian Military Claims Eighty Percent of Russian Targets Now Hit by Drones

What Happened?

This week the Ukrainian military claimed that during 2025, eighty percent of the Russian targets were hit by unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones. Ukrainian President Zelenskyy said, ‘we record every single hit,’ while adding that Ukraine recorded 819,737 drone hits on video in 2025. One third of those were drone hits on Russian personnel according to Ukraine’s military. 

According to Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense, approximately 240,000 of the drone strikes targeted enemy personnel, in addition to 62,000 hits against light vehicles, 29,000 against heavy vehicles and 32,000 strikes against unmanned aerial vehicles for strike and reconnaissance. Russia has yet to comment on the claims made by Ukraine’s military.

Why it Matters

The claims and video evidence provided by Ukraine’s military illustrate how far the evolution in drone warfare has come since the Russian invasion in 2022. It could also reveal the limitations of relying on drones, since Ukraine provided no assessment of how many of the targets hit by drones were killed or destroyed as opposed to just wounded or damaged. Given the amount of video footage available, such an assessment would take a considerable amount of time to complete.

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If true, or even close to accurate, the number of drone hits claimed by Ukraine against Russia could represent the largest total in the history of warfare to date. Russia has also been using more drones to attack targets, so their figures could be comparable, but Russian officials have not shared their drone data publicly. Either way, the sheer number of drone hits requires at least that many drones to be manufactured, since none of the attack drones involved are reusable. 

There is an old saying in the military, ‘amateurs study tactics, professionals study logistics.’ The logistics required to manufacture, transport, and utilize nearly a million drones in a single year are significant.

Some of those drones were made outside of Ukraine, but likely just as many or more were made within Ukraine’s borders. That means despite persistent Russian missile and drone attacks, as a country Ukraine has still been able to build or transport a huge volume of attack drones and deliver them to its armed forces.

As part of the process, Ukrainian officials also said they utilized a point system for hits on targets, so that units who hit more targets get more points and subsequently receive more drones. Such a systematic, decentralized, and nationwide effort to build, transport, and successfully employ attack drones is probably a first in the history of warfare.

How it Affects You

Much of the video footage Ukraine has accumulated during the war with Russia is accessible online, which means anyone with an internet connection can see and analyze the video content.

Drones are easy to purchase commercially, and the modifications required to turn them into attack drones are not difficult or expensive. It is likely the type of drone attacks Ukraine is using against Russia can be carried out anywhere, and the probability of such attacks occurring beyond the battlefield goes up every day. 

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