Results of Ukraine's Defense Industry in 2025: FPV Drones
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60% of Russian army losses are inflicted through the use of FPV drones (stated January 2026)
“"Today, 60% of the losses of the Russian army are inflicted precisely through the use of FPV drones."”
Calculation notes
Cited as evidence that drone warfare has become the dominant casualty mechanism in the conflict, supporting the caveat that the killed-to-seriously-wounded ratio has shifted as FPV-drone strikes replace a larger share of gunshot and artillery wounds. This is a Russian-side casualty-attribution figure (Ukrainian casualty data broken down by mechanism is not published), used as the best available public evidence for the general drone-warfare trend; it does not feed into the native/normalized killed-plus-wounded arithmetic above, which rests solely on the Zelenskyy/OSW/Economist/CSIS figures.
Independence note: RNBO is an official Ukrainian government body; this is Kyiv's own assessment of Russian losses, distinct from the Zelenskyy casualty figures (which cover Ukraine's own losses) and from the OSW/Economist/CSIS Western analyst estimates used elsewhere in this entry.
Source date: 2026-01-23 · Accessed: 2026-07-04
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60% of Russian army losses are inflicted through the use of FPV drones (stated January 2026)
“"Today, 60% of the losses of the Russian army are inflicted precisely through the use of FPV drones."”
Calculation notes
Cited as evidence that long-range and FPV drone strikes have become the dominant casualty mechanism in the conflict, supporting the body's point that rear-area and logistics targets are no longer geographically insulated the way historical infantry-to-support ratios assume. This is a Russian-side casualty-attribution figure (Ukrainian casualty data broken down by role or mechanism is not published), used as the best available public evidence for the general trend; it is not used to derive a per-capita support-troop rate, which this entry flags as unquantifiable from public data.
Independence note: RNBO is an official Ukrainian government body; this is Kyiv's own assessment of Russian losses, independent of the PMC military-medicine study and the tooth-to-tail source above.
Source date: 2026-01-23 · Accessed: 2026-07-04
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