Ukraine’s Drone Forces Claim 100,000 Russian Casualties in One Year

Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces (USF) have eliminated more than 100,000 Russian troops during their first year of operations, according to USF commander Robert “Madyar” Brovdi.

“The USF birds report: one hundred thousand worms in a year. Three times the forces and assets of the ‘Kyiv in three days’ operation have been destroyed,” Brovdi wrote on Telegram on Thursday, referring to Russian troops as “worms” and Russia’s reported campaign to capture Kyiv in three days at the onset of the 2022 invasion.

According to him, the figure includes confirmed, irrecoverable Russian losses recorded in Ukraine’s Delta battlefield awareness system.

“The birds have crossed the mark of 100,000 enemy personnel with confirmed irrecoverable and sanitary losses. Every case has been verified in the Delta military awareness system, which stores information and evidence for each mission,” he said.

Brovdi recalled that Russia committed approximately 35,000 elite airborne troops, special forces personnel, and marines during its February 2022 attempt to seize Kyiv.

According to him, Russia’s total invasion force at the start of the full-scale invasion numbered around 180,000 troops across four main axes of advance: Kyiv, Siversk-Slobozhanskyi, Donetsk-Luhansk, and southern Tavria.

He noted that Russian troop levels now exceed 700,000 personnel.

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Brovdi said USF units have carried out approximately 1.6 million combat missions over the past year, averaging about 5,000 sorties per day, and have destroyed or damaged roughly 350,000 verified Russian targets.

According to the figures released by Brovdi, USF forces destroyed or damaged:

• 248 air defense systems
• 817 tanks
• 1,379 armored personnel carriers, infantry fighting vehicles, and other armored combat vehicles
• 4,890 artillery systems
• 342 self-propelled artillery systems
• 281 multipurpose military vehicles
• 26,430 logistics vehicles
• 29,903 reconnaissance drones
• 7,633 Shahed and Gerbera-type drones
• 13 aircraft and helicopters
• 10,848 drone operator launch sites
• 100,082 Russian military personnel

Brovdi said the USF aims to eliminate 200,000 Russian troops and 650,000 enemy military targets next year.

“Gentlemen, congratulations and thank you for this powerful result,” he wrote. “Kyiv in three days will never happen again.”