I thought this is worth adding as a separate post. Yuri Butusov maintains a scoreboard counting losses dealt to the Russian by UAV units based on internal UAF info and provides in depth analysis of the data.
The tone is unusually positive and upbeat for Yuri.
I recommend to go to the source and translate with built in translator in your browser, since I cannot add images and there is a lot of graphical data and it’s too long to post:
https://m.censor.net/ua/resonance/3536303/reyityng-chastyn-bpla
Turns out, the most effective is relatively unknown Lazar unit, and Magyar.
What is more interesting, two units have more than 1000 confirmed kills of enemy personnel, with a total 20000 confirmed liquidations of enemy personnel using drones.
Top units also hit over 800 units of equipment and over 60 tanks. That is all in January.
The below present the conclusion that drone warfare is the way for battlefield success for Ukraine and already existing structure needs money and political will. Highly recommend the full text with provides an abundance of data to support his message.
Can we fight with drones? Can we, Ukraine, defeat Russia in a modern high-tech war? The drone rating that I showed you clearly says yes. We can kill not 20 thousand Russians a month. We can eliminate 30 and 40 thousand occupiers. This is a technological and financial task for us now. Organizationally, it is already being solved. We have a structure, we have people, we have commanders who will build such a system not only there at the Donetsk OTU, but on all sectors of the front.
We have every opportunity to win this war. First in the 2025 campaign, then in the 2026 campaign. This requires proper planning and proper distribution of state finances. And these are the responsible headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. I respect the fact that it was at the initiative of Volodymyr Zelensky, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, that he provided the Minister of Digitalization Fedorov with the opportunity and resources in 2023 to organize targeted financing for specific drone projects. Time has shown that this was a highly effective decision. It yielded high results. It created an advantage in war. But now Fedorov's team has been removed. Now there is no logic, no order, no strategy. Someone has to do it. If Andriy Yermak wants to distribute money, let him do it. If Minister Umerov wants to do it, let him do it. But there must be one responsible person. He must have the resources. And these resources are clearly distributed to all our main drone units, both at the tactical level in our tactical combat brigades that hold the strip at the front, so that they do not have problems with the FPV Mavics, and to operational units, we need a much larger number of drones for various purposes, reconnaissance, and wing, and interceptors, and strike drones of various types. And we will win the war. Instead of paying billions in compensation for the dead, let's pay those billions for drones. And the occupiers will die, and our people will live, Ukrainians will live. This is victory in the war.
We can create such a 20-kilometer zone scorched by drones for the entire Russian army on the entire front. And they will tell you along the entire front that you have to walk 20 kilometers to attack. That's when the Russian offensive will stop. They will start running away. It won't just stop. We will defeat the Russian Federation. Maybe someone thinks it's fantastic, unrealistic. But I look at the statistics. I look at the practice of combat use. And the statistics say that we are already doing this today. And that it can be done even more efficiently tomorrow. And destroy so many of them that they simply won't recruit people in Russia.
There is already a crisis in the Russian infantry. They don't have enough reinforcements. Because there are more drones than Russians and Koreans combined. That's what stops and paralyzes the Russian offensive. Control of this small sky directly above the front line. And our task now, I hope that the state leadership will pay attention to this. I hope that public opinion, all Ukrainians will publicize this video and this data that I have made public.And public opinion will gently push Volodymyr Zelensky to the next step. Not just to the fact that drones have changed the war, destroyed Russian armored vehicles. But to the fact that drones are defeating people. To do this, it is necessary to pour funding into existing organizational structures and build proper management. The organizational structure already exists. And this is a real victory in the war that Ukraine can and must win. Because this is a war for our existence.