Tables Turned! Russians Retreat Back into Kursk! - RFU News

[ancianita]

2. I wonder what your source has to say about the Russian side of the drone war.

...Russia has so far sent more than 34,000 attack drones and decoys into Ukraine in 2025, nearly nine times the number from the same period last year, according to the Times data set. Of the drones Moscow has deployed this year, Ukraine said it had knocked down 88 percent by shooting them or electronically scrambling them. That figure is down from the nearly 93 percent Kyiv reported in 2024.

Over one night the first weekend of this month, Russia sent a record 810 attack drones and decoys into Ukraine. Kyiv claimed to have knocked down about 92 percent of them, but that still meant 63 got through. Ukraine said that 54 had hit targets in 33 different locations. The data could not be independently verified...

...At a recent economic forum in the Russian city of Vladivostok, nearly every Russian region participating included a display about the drones it was producing. Students and foreign workers have been brought in to manufacture drones. Russia has drawn on its warm relations with Iran and China for know-how and parts.

Analysts estimate that Russia is now able to produce about 30,000 of the attack drones modeled on the Iranian design per year. Some believe the country could double that in 2026.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/world/europe/russia-ukraine-drone-attacks-production.html