{"id":911961,"date":"2026-04-22T22:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/911961\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T22:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:10:16","slug":"ukraine-leverages-drone-warfare-as-new-offensive-season-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/911961\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Leverages Drone Warfare As New Offensive Season Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Ukraine Leverages Drone Warfare As New Offensive Season Begins | Aviation Week Network<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/themes\/custom\/particle\/dist\/app-drupal\/assets\/AW_logo_horizontal_small_white.svg<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"#main-content\" class=\"visually-hidden focusable\"><br \/>\n      Skip to main content<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <a id=\"main-content\" tabindex=\"-1\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p>                        <a class=\"article__byline\" href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/author\/steve-trimble\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steve Trimble<\/a><br \/>\n                    April 23, 2026<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ukradv-1_ukraine_defense_ministry_promo.jpg\" alt=\"man operating small drone\" class=\"b-lazy  img \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Small drones now enforce a 10-15-km \u201ckill box\u201d on both sides of the front lines.<\/p>\n<p>Credit: Ukraine Defense Ministry <\/p>\n<p>  On stage before hundreds of American artillery officers, Ukrainian Maj. Gen. Volodymyr Horbatiuk started by showing a video taken with his cell phone on Feb. 24, 2022, the day Russia launched the wide-scale invasion of his country. In the video, the camera pans across an unnamed crossroads somewhere&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Trimble_Steve_sized_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"b-lazy  img author__image \"\/><\/p>\n<p>          <a href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/author\/steve-trimble\" class=\"author--teaser__name\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steve Trimble<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"author--teaser__bio\">Steve covers military aviation, missiles and space for the Aviation Week Network, based in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:25px;\"><strong>Ukraine Leverages Drone Warfare As New Offensive Season Begins<\/strong> is available to both\u00a0Aviation Week &amp; Space Technology\u00a0and AWIN subscribers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:25px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/products\/aviation-week-space-technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Subscribe now<\/strong><\/a> to read this content, plus receive critical analysis into emerging trends, technological advancements, operational best practices and continuous updates to policy, requirements and budgets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:25px;\">Already a subscriber to AW&amp;ST or AWIN? <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/user\/login\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Log in<\/a> with your existing email\u00a0and password.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn button button--primary button--yellow float-left\" href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/products\/aviation-week-space-technology\" role=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Subscribe<\/a><a class=\"btn button button--primary button--yellow float-left ml-3\" href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/user\/login\" role=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Log in\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukraine Leverages Drone Warfare As New Offensive Season Begins | Aviation Week Network https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/themes\/custom\/particle\/dist\/app-drupal\/assets\/AW_logo_horizontal_small_white.svg Skip to main content&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":911962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-911961","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116450652415229066","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}