According to intelligence, which the military refers to, the invaders will be able to attack any Ukrainian city for two days, like Kyiv or Kharkov, with the help of 300-400 such drones.
“Taking into account all the circumstances, most of them [дронов] will fall into the goals, ”Yaroslavsky predicted.
In addition, he emphasized that the Russian Federation is modernizing its drums.
“The enemy maneuvers his UAVs in such a way as to bypass our air defense systems, our radar [радиолокационные системы]. Their intelligence, in particular, is also working. Therefore, we can see shahed, which fly at an altitude conditionally 200 m, and we can see rising to a height of 4.5 km, 4.2 km. And this will only be upgraded all the further, ”the commander added.
According to the latest data from the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the Russian Federation may run In Ukraine, up to 300 shock drones per day.
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Since 2024, the Russian Federation fired on Ukraine with shock drieders Shahed almost every day. Over the past year, the invaders were released in Ukraine 11.2 thousand combat drones, reported the command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces.
Since the beginning of 2025, Ukrainian military intelligence recorded a number of significant changes in the structure of the Shahed-136 (“Gerani-2”, “Harpy”), and also talked about the units of the Shaheda series “Y”. The head of the Nikolaev regional military administration reported that on February 16, the Russian Federation attacked the regional center with the help of a new type of Shahed with 12-channel antennas.
In March, the deputy head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Vadim Skibitsky warned that the Russian Federation plans to launch 500 Shaheda every night.
On June 16, The Wall Street Journal wrote that the Russian Federation attacked Ukraine in the first two weeks of June with so many shock drones as it issued for the months of 2024.
