Overview
- President Volodymyr Zelensky signed Presidential Decree No. 485/2026 establishing June 11 as the Day of the Unmanned Systems Forces to recognize the branch’s first year of operations.
- Kyiv says Unmanned Systems Forces struck nearly $40 billion in Russian targets over the past year and that drone operations have driven Russian losses above 30,000 killed and wounded per month, figures presented as official claims with limited independent verification.
- Commander‑in‑Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi reported that Ukrainian drone units struck almost 180,000 verified targets in May and carried out roughly 2,000 ‘Middle Strike’ attacks that reach up to about 200 km behind the front.
- USF commander Robert “Madyar” Brovdi told Reuters he plans to sever Crimea’s overland links by interdicting the Novorossiya (R‑280) highway, saying traffic on the route has fallen by more than two thirds and Kyiv expects to tighten control within weeks.
- Large reciprocal strikes continued on June 10–11, when Russia launched missiles and hundreds of attack drones and Ukraine reported shooting down or neutralizing most of them, highlighting the rising air‑defense and escalation pressures that Western partners are being asked to help address.