David Kirichenko
To keep pace with Russia’s drone tactics, Ukraine must expand its mid-range drone strike capabilities.
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine approaches its fifth year, the character of the war continues to evolve into a technical struggle shaped by drones, electronic warfare, and the ability to strike at depth.
Ukraine has compensated for its disadvantage in traditional firepower through innovation. Unmanned systems, particularly first-person-view (FPV) drones, allowed Ukrainian forces to blunt Russian offensives and impose high costs on attacking units. Over time, this approach hardened into a “drone wall,” a layered defensive zone that has turned many Russian assaults into fields of casualties.
That kill zone has expanded steadily, now stretching roughly 15 to 25 kilometers from the front line, with Ukrainian forces increasingly pushing its reach up to 40 kilometers.
In April 2025, I wrote that Ukraine had established its drone wall defenses and that a new kind of no man’s land was emerging. Battlefields would increasingly be saturated with semi-autonomous drones capable of detecting and striking exposed movement, foreshadowing the direction of automated warfare.
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