These weapons have also severely impacted the Russian front-lines in Donbas itself where Putin\u2019s forces have had their already plodding advances further slowed by drone attacks on both fighting troops and the supplies they need to push forward. According to some reports, Russia has lost more territory to Ukraine than it has gained in the last two months of its faltering summer offensive.<\/p>\n
Longer-range drones have also inflicted significant damage on logistics facilities deep inside Russia. A few days ago, when Ukrainian drone swarms attacked St Petersburg<\/a> during the annual economic forum hosted by Putin, they also hit a munitions dump and an oil depot in Krasnodar region some 300 miles away. Since last year, Kyiv has conducted drone strikes against multiple Russian oil refineries, including as far east as Siberia, not only disrupting military fuel supplies but also leading to long lines at the petrol station in some regions.<\/p>\n The advantage that Ukraine currently has in drone warfare, largely as a result of its own efforts, may not last long as Russia develops its inevitable countermeasures. Such ups and downs are always present in warfare, as Ukraine itself has shown with its defences against Russian drones and ballistic missiles. The Ukrainian military depend heavily on foreign-supplied air defence missiles such as the US Patriot<\/a> and Franco-Italian SAMP\/T plus anti-aircraft guns, particularly the German Gepard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"These weapons have also severely impacted the Russian front-lines in Donbas itself where Putin\u2019s forces have had their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[906,426,351,907,1759,82,375,1760,1761,1762,26,81],"class_list":["post-3664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-comment","tag-crimea","tag-defence","tag-drones-aircraft","tag-ministry-of-defence","tag-news","tag-opinion","tag-robotics","tag-russian-invasion","tag-terror-amp-security","tag-ukraine","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}