Russia launched its 2026 spring offensive promising victory, but the results tell a very different story. Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces claim over 100,000 Russian casualties in less than a year, while advanced drone tactics and expanded kill zones are devastating Putin’s military. As Russia struggles to gain ground and loses critical equipment, even Kremlin insiders are warning of failure. In this video, we break down the numbers, the strategy, and why momentum appears to be shifting toward Ukraine.
00:00 - Russia's Failed Spring Offensive
01:02 - The 100,000 Casualty Milestone
02:44 - Destroying Russia’s Military Hardware
04:38 - The Catastrophic Killed-to-Wounded Ratio
06:14 - Russia is Actively Losing Ground
08:40 - Ukraine’s New Drone Kill Zones
11:13 - The Secret Weapon: Real-Time Satellites
13:25 - Internal Cracks in Putin's Regime
16:43 - Putin's Refusal to Face Reality
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00:00 - Russia's Failed Spring Offensive
01:02 - The 100,000 Casualty Milestone
02:44 - Destroying Russia’s Military Hardware
04:38 - The Catastrophic Killed-to-Wounded Ratio
06:14 - Russia is Actively Losing Ground
08:40 - Ukraine’s New Drone Kill Zones
11:13 - The Secret Weapon: Real-Time Satellites
13:25 - Internal Cracks in Putin's Regime
16:43 - Putin's Refusal to Face Reality
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00:00Russia started the spring with grand plans. A massive offensive, the collapse of the Donbass.
00:06Ukraine would finally crumble under Russia's might. That was the messaging out of the Kremlin
00:11as spring kicked off. But like so much that comes out of the mouths of Putin's cronies,
00:16the messaging was, shall we say, a little off. Russia's spring offensive was a failure,
00:21and the past year has seen the rise of something terrifying for Putin.
00:24Ukraine did something devastating to 100,000 of Russia's troops. A brilliant new tactic is in
00:31play, and it's put Putin's army on its deathbed. Even Russians can see the end coming, but Putin's
00:36head is buried so deep in the sand that he doesn't know what the battlefield is telling him.
00:40Russia is losing. All of the momentum rests with Ukraine.
00:44And if there is any doubt about this clear fact, we only need to look at the real numbers that
00:49have emerged from Russia's spring campaign. A massive offensive that was supposed to set the
00:53stage for the fall of the Donbass by fall has instead served as a brutal reminder to Russia
00:58that Ukraine only seems to be getting stronger. And the numbers come from the charismatic and
01:04notorious leader of Ukraine's unmanned systems forces, Robert Brovdy. Today, June 4, 2026,
01:11358 days after the creation of the SBS group, June 11, 2025, the Byrds crossed the mark of 100,000
01:18carcasses of enemy biomass with confirmed irretrievable and sanitary losses, Brovdy roared in a
01:24telegram post. The Russian worms, as Brovdy calls them, have suffered a spring that will live in memory
01:30for years. And the number of soldiers that Ukraine has eliminated in just one year is especially
01:35humiliating when taken in the context of the size of the force that Putin thought he would need to
01:40take all of Ukraine. Way back in February 2022, when Russia launched the full-scale invasion, Putin
01:46dedicated 180,000 soldiers to the cause. These soldiers attacked on four axes, Kiev, the Donbass,
01:53the southern region of Tavrya, and the Siversk-Slovozanschnya region. The idea was simple,
01:59unleash a firestorm that would lead to Ukraine collapsing in three days. But Ukraine survived,
02:04and now Ukraine has eliminated enough Russian soldiers to account for more than half of the
02:08force that Putin originally thought would be enough to topple his enemy. That's an embarrassment.
02:13A clear indictment of Putin's complete failure to live up to the image of the great military
02:19tactician that he had created for himself. But even more than any of that, what Ukraine
02:23pulled off in the spring of 2026 is a credit to the country's tactical brilliance, as it's taken
02:28a weapon that has defined the Ukraine war and turned it into the true game-changer that Putin
02:33never saw coming. Things are starting to shift in Ukraine. But before we dig into why, how about a
02:39few more numbers? The turnaround in Ukraine's fortunes can be traced directly back to the
02:44formation of the Unmanned Systems Forces, or USF, of the Ukrainian army on June 11, 2025.
02:50Ukraine had made heavy use of drones long before the creation of this force, of course,
02:54but with the USF came systemization, control, collaboration. The formalization of a drone strategy
03:00that began wreaking havoc on Russia in the latter half of 2025 and has evolved into a true game-changer
03:05in the Ukraine war as we head toward the midpoint of 2026. The 100,000-plus Russian soldiers who now
03:12lie dead or injured as a result of these drones are just the starting point. Since its formation,
03:17the USF has conducted 350,000 verified strikes against Russian targets as part of 1.65 million
03:25combat missions in just a few days shy of a year. That's 5,000 sorties per day, and the numbers
03:31only
03:31get worse for Russia from here on out. The USF has spent the last 12 months destroying 248 Russian
03:38air defense vehicles, 817 of Putin's tanks, and 1,379 armored vehicles, including personnel carriers
03:46and infantry fighting vehicles. There's a lot more. Under the force of Ukraine's drones,
03:51Russia has lost 4,890 artillery systems, Brody declares. That's devastating for Russia on the front.
03:58Artillery is supposed to provide the fire support that enables infantry to advance.
04:02But it's the Russian artillery that is on fire, and Russian soldiers are dying in droves as a result.
04:07And it keeps on going. 342 self-propelled artillery systems, 13 aircraft and helicopters,
04:15281 multiple launch rocket systems, a staggering 26,430 logistics vehicles, and even more reconnaissance
04:23and strike drones. All have fallen to the power of the USF, as Ukraine's systematic approach to the
04:29drone warfare that it innovated is delivering brutal payback to Russia for Putin's actions.
04:34Then we come back to the casualties. First, remember this, the figures we've shared come
04:39from the USF alone. Russia has experienced many hundreds of thousands more casualties over the past
04:44year when taking all of Ukraine's defenses and units into account. Second, the exact number of Russian
04:50troops destroyed by the USF since the unit's June 11, 2025 formation is 100,082. Of those, 53,477 were
05:00killed and 46,605 were wounded. Russia's dead-to-wounded ratio is completely out of whack.
05:07The Depay Institute highlighted that in a study that examined several 20th-century wars involving
05:11the US military. In all, the killed-to-wounded ratio was always in favor of wounded over killed.
05:17World War I saw a ratio of 3.83 wounded to every soldier killed. In World War II, it was
05:232.41 wounded
05:24to one killed. The Korean War was 2.8, the Vietnam War was 3.14, and the Afghanistan War was
05:319.98,
05:32all wounded to every one kill. And yet Russia is experiencing more killed than wounded. That's
05:38catastrophic. And it shows us that Ukraine has become a more efficient killing machine than Putin
05:42could have ever imagined when he launched his plan to destroy Ukraine in three days back in February
05:482022. None of the USF's figures are conjecture either. Every single number that Brovdi reports
05:54comes from Ukraine's Delta system. Everything is tracked and verified. The evidence is in the system.
06:00All Ukraine has to do is tot up the numbers to see that a year of USF operations had delivered
06:05devastation to Russia. And for the next 12 months, the USF has set itself a new target,
06:10200,000 casualties, double what it has inflicted during its first year of existence.
06:15Let's bring things back to the spring offensive. The USF's amazing figures slot nicely into a three-month
06:21period where Russia had lost enormous amounts of meat for very little gain. According to United24
06:26media, Russia's spring has cost it almost 100,000 soldiers, many of whom have been taken out by USF
06:33drones. In the two months between March and April, the outlet says, Russia managed to occupy around
06:38300 square kilometers of Ukraine. The period between February and March had seen Ukraine liberate
06:43between 400 and 500 square kilometers, which suggests the situation on the ground right now
06:48is pretty much a standstill for Russia. That assessment is backed by figures from the Institute
06:53for the Study of War, ISW. It says that Ukraine's forces have largely halted the spring and summer
06:58offensive, with April and May both seeing Russia record a net loss of territory when taking the
07:03infiltration units that are operating in the gray zones that neither side controls out of the
07:08equation. In April, Russia had a net loss of 116.01 square kilometers, the ISW reports. May was worse
07:16for Russia. About 281.10 square kilometer net loss signaled a low point on a scale that Russia hasn't
07:22seen since Ukraine's large counteroffensive in the summer of 2023. Maybe standstill is a misnomer.
07:27Russia is actively losing ground to Ukraine. The spring has been a failure for Russia. Summer isn't
07:34going to be much better, especially as the USF intensifies its strikes. If the USF can start hitting
07:39the monthly numbers that would lead it to claiming 200,000 casualties over the next 12 months, then a
07:44Russian military that is already on its deathbed will be buried six feet under. Recent reporting points
07:50out that Russia's long-range attacks against Ukraine's civilian population have intensified in lockstep
07:55with the failure of Putin's forces on the ground. This is supposed to be a showcase of Russian aerial
08:00strength. It isn't. What we're seeing in these increased attacks on Ukraine's population centers
08:05is the last dying gasp of a Russian offensive that has already crumbled. Russia is doing things like
08:10sending 1,500 drones into Kyiv and the surrounding territories in a single day because it's desperate.
08:16Big drone numbers make it seem as though Russia holds the initiative on the battlefield.
08:20The USF's numbers demonstrate that isn't the case. But more than that, they signal an evolution in
08:26Ukraine's strategy that Russia can't handle. This evolution has changed everything about the
08:30Ukraine war. But a quick side note before we get into that. This is the military show. If you're
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08:40So Ukraine's evolved tactics, what are they? We said earlier that drones have been playing a key role
08:45in Ukraine's strategy for years. But what the USF's numbers show us is that what was once the case of
08:50Ukrainian units hitting Russia with drones without real coordination has transformed into a systematic
08:56campaign spearheaded by the USF that has brought the power of robotics to the battlefield.
09:01The tide is turning in Ukraine because the robot army that the country has spent years building
09:06is now larger and more organized than ever before. Ukraine is now the world leader in military drone
09:12technology. The Observer says that the country is producing at least 4 million drones per year.
09:17That number will keep on climbing. In January, Euromiden Press reported that Ukraine plans to build
09:227 million drones in 2026. Right now, drones are estimated to be inflicting 80% of battlefield
09:28casualties on both sides. But it's Ukraine that is coming out on top in this critical area of the war.
09:34How? The expansion of the kill zones.
09:37Again, Ukraine's kill zones are far from being a new addition to the war in 2026.
09:42They have existed for a long time, though they have undergone plenty of transformations since the
09:46USF was formed. The earlier versions of the kill zones stretched for about 10 to 20 kilometers beyond
09:52the front and into the grey zones just behind. The idea was simple. Make the very concept of traveling
09:57to the front lethal for Russia's soldiers. With its kill zones, Ukraine has been eliminating
10:02thousands of Putin's patsies along with hundreds of units of equipment before they ever get into a
10:07position where they could threaten the front-line fortifications. It was already a brilliant
10:12strategy. Now it's been supercharged. Russia's big problem is that the kill zones have grown larger
10:17than ever before. A new generation of middle-range drones has taken what used to be zones that stretched
10:22for a dozen or so kilometers, and made them so they cover huge portions of the Russian rear.
10:27And we're seeing it all over. In Luhansk, the skies are controlled by Ukrainian drones,
10:31per Ukraine's 3rd Army Corps. Those drones are able to fly over territory that is occupied by Russia
10:36because Putin's forces have no answer for Ukraine's expansion. We're seeing something similar in Donetsk,
10:42where Ukraine's drones have obtained fire control over the Donetsk airport that Russia uses as a
10:47logistical node and drone launch and storage site to support operations in the occupied territories.
10:53Ukraine has also used its drones to establish aerial control over large portions of the R280 highway
10:58that connects Russia to Crimea. The kill zones now stretch for around 100 kilometers.
11:04That's the evolution that has made the sorts of numbers that the USF reports possible,
11:08but what happens next is really going to catch Russia off-gal. The reason why the USF claims that
11:14it's going to double its numbers during its second year of existence isn't just because of Ukraine's
11:18evolving kill zone strategy. There's more to it than that. Data is playing as much a part in
11:23Ukraine's success as the drones, as Ukraine's forces are pulling ahead of Russia in terms of
11:27the level and quality of the battlefield intelligence they're gathering. That was revealed in a June 4th
11:33report by the Wall Street Journal, which revealed that there is a secret weapon behind the drone
11:37disaster that Ukraine has delivered to Russia. Ukraine's kill chain has been sped up enormously due to
11:42Ukraine now having access to real-time satellite imagery that can be beamed straight to soldiers'
11:48phones. That imagery, combined with the thousands of reconnaissance drones beaming real-time footage
11:53of Russian positions back to the Delta system, is allowing Ukraine to identify and strike targets
11:58faster than at any other point during the war so far. This aspect of Ukraine's drone evolution has led
12:04to the delivery time of geospatial intelligence to Ukraine's troops dropping by 90%, practically doubling the
12:10speed at which Ukraine can go into action with its drones. The Ukrainian military's deployment of
12:15the program marks the first known instance of unclassified commercial satellite imagery
12:19going directly to a soldier to guide real-time battle decisions, according to the companies and
12:24military analysts, the journal says of Ukraine's new approach to intelligence gathering.
12:29The commercial satellites that Ukraine is leveraging have been used in the past to update Google Maps and
12:34conduct benign operations, such as identifying illegal phishing. Now Ukraine uses them to find Russian
12:40and when it finds those assets, the USF and Ukraine's other drone units jump into action.
12:45This isn't a subtle shift on the battlefield, it's the complete rewriting of the rules of drone warfare.
12:51That's crazy to say, given that the Ukraine war has already served as the progenitor for a new style
12:55of robotic warfare that hasn't been seen up to this point. However, it's also typical of Ukraine.
13:01The country's military minds never rest on their laurels. Ukraine adapts constantly, taking advantage of
13:06every advance that is made to hurt Russia. That's what we're seeing with the expanded kill zones and
13:11the use of commercial satellite feeds delivering intelligence to soldiers. Ukraine stays two steps
13:16ahead of Russia and the numbers that the USF and the Ukrainian military as a whole are putting up now
13:20demonstrate that the country's approach works. What does this mean for Putin? Russia's leader is losing
13:26control over the Ukraine war at a critical juncture. It's not just troops dying by the tens of thousands and
13:32equipment being destroyed in the occupied rear. In Russia itself, Ukraine's drones now fly so deep
13:37that they were effortlessly able to strike St. Petersburg on the eve of the Russian Davos economic
13:42event that Putin tries to use to showcase the strength of Russia's economy. Before that failure
13:47of Russia's defenses, Putin had been forced to scale back Moscow's annual victory day parade to the point
13:52where it involved none of Russia's military hardware. That happened for the simple reason that Russia
13:57was scared of Ukraine's drones hitting the hardware as it was paraded. Ukraine's
14:01drones are hitting deeper and harder than ever and the intensity of the frontline and kill zone
14:05campaigns isn't scaling back. Again, it's evolution. Ukraine keeps on building stronger and more
14:11advanced drones and it's more organized in how it uses these drones than it's ever been before.
14:16That's what over 100,000 Russian casualties and tens of thousands of units of equipment caused by the
14:21USF in a year really means for Russia. This isn't a crescendo. It's a launching pad for much worse to
14:27come.
14:28Russia's army is on its deathbed and Ukraine is preparing to inflict the final blows to Putin's
14:332026 campaign. And it's not just us saying that. All over Russia, Putin's people are telling him
14:38that it's time to end the war. They know what Putin refuses to accept. It's all over for Russia now.
14:44No matter where you look, you can see the wellspring of discontent forming.
14:48It's visible among Russia's elite, the Wall Street Journal reported on June 3rd.
14:51All over Russia, some of the more hawkish people at the top of the country's food chain are telling
14:56Putin that it's time to stop. Among them is Oleg Zaryov, who was once loved by the Kremlin
15:01because he is a former Ukrainian lawmaker who has supported what Putin is trying to do in Ukraine
15:05since 2014. At one point, Zaryov was being groomed to lead the puppet government that Putin wants to
15:10install in Ukraine. Now, the turncoat has betrayed his master as he has warned his followers on Telegram
15:16not to buy into the illusion of an inevitable Russian victory. Others, such as the head of Russia's drone
15:21warfare center Alexei Chidaev are claiming that Russia is not only on a path to a stalemate,
15:26but is heading to a full-scale defeat due to Ukraine's constant evolution.
15:31The view at the top is reflected by Russian military bloggers, often the biggest evangelists
15:36for Putin's war. Even they are starting to turn on their leader. Zaryov is just the start. Pro-Kremlin
15:41lawyer and military blogger Ilya Rameshlo has publicly announced that he no longer supports Putin,
15:47Putin giving five reasons for his turnaround and even going so far as to claim that Putin is an
15:52illegitimate president who should be put on trial for war crimes. Rats tend to flee a sinking ship.
15:58That's what we're seeing in Russia now. Those who were enriched by Putin's invasion in the early
16:03days are now going to great pains to let the world know that they no longer support their leader.
16:07This is self-preservation and in many ways it's pathetic. But it doesn't change the reality that Putin now
16:12faces, which is that everybody except for him sees the way the wind is blowing.
16:18Even the Russian people, who are bombarded with Kremlin propaganda to an insane degree,
16:22are telling Putin that it's time to stop. According to TVP World, a poll conducted by
16:27Russia's non-governmental Levada Research Center back in February showed that only 24% of respondents
16:33want the war to continue. 67% of those quizzed said that the time was right for Russia to move
16:39toward peace negotiations. And all of this was back in February. The anti-war sentiment in Russia
16:44is only growing as more drones strike Russian territory and numbers like those shared by the
16:48USF come to light. Putin won't end the war. He has already rejected Zelensky's latest calls for peace
16:54talks, claiming that there is no point, as he tried to make it seem that Ukraine's president isn't
16:59serious about wanting peace. That's a lie. What Putin means is that he knows that Russia hasn't got any
17:04cards left. The leverage is gone. Any peace that would come from talks won't deliver what Putin
17:09wanted, which means his entire invasion will go down in history as a catastrophic waste of Russian
17:15life. Putin doesn't want that to be his legacy, so he forces the fight to go on. Even as the
17:21death
17:21rattle of the Russian army echoes throughout his country, Putin can't escape his legacy. All he can
17:27hope for now is that he dies before he goes down in the history books as the failure that he
17:31knows he is.
17:31When even Russians are telling him that it's time to stop, Putin should know that it's all over.
17:36And we're seeing the tide turning everywhere in Ukraine, especially in Luhansk. We mentioned
17:41earlier that Ukraine now controls the skies in a territory that Russia has occupied since the
17:45beginning of the war. Find out how Ukraine did it and what it all means for Russia by watching our
17:49video. And if you enjoyed this video, remember to subscribe to The Military Show as we chart the
17:55demise of a Russian Empire that Putin has failed to build. And thank you, as always, for watching.
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