Drones accounted for 66% of Russian navy tools losses in January, Oleksandr Syrskyi, Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, has stated.
Supply: Syrskyi following a gathering on the event of unmanned methods and digital warfare within the first month of 2025 on Fb
Quote from Syrskyi: "Strike UAVs of assorted varieties accounted for 66% of Russian tools losses in January. Total, our drones hit or destroyed 7% extra targets within the reporting month than in December."
Particulars: He additionally said that First-Particular person View (FPV) drones had been chargeable for the most important portion of the harm, accounting for 49%.
Syrskyi famous the contributions of uncrewed aerial methods items from the forty sixth Airmobile Brigade, the third Assault Brigade and the eightieth Air Assault Brigade, which led on this regard.
The commander-in-chief additional pressured the significance of enhancing coordination between UAV items and mixed arms items throughout the assembly.
He additionally talked about that he had obtained experiences on the capabilities of the Unmanned Techniques Forces, the reorganisation of regiments into brigades, the enlargement of the unmanned part in mechanised brigades and the most recent fashions of digital warfare methods and their integration with UAVs.
"The idea for the deployment of a devoted UAV brigade inside the Armed Forces of Ukraine, together with different organisational measures to boost the Unmanned Techniques Forces, is nearing completion," Syrskyi wrote.
He additionally highlighted that he centered on an intelligence report concerning the formation of a brand new kind of navy unit by the Russians — the unmanned methods troops of the Russian Armed Forces.
"We’re conscious of the enemy's intentions and particular plans, which foresee the deployment of 210,000 Unmanned Techniques Forces servicemen throughout 277 navy items by 2030. Nonetheless, on this battle, the initiative in unmanned methods is ours… We’ll proceed to develop, enhance and scale up our achievements on this discipline," he concluded.
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