Food wins wars—and Ukraine is targeting the very thing Russia’s army cannot survive without: logistics. From precision drone strikes near Chernihivka to growing shortages in occupied Crimea, Ukraine’s campaign is threatening the supply routes that keep Russian forces fed, fueled, and fighting. As AI-powered drones hunt trucks deep behind the front lines, Russia’s southern military network faces unprecedented pressure. Could Ukraine’s strategy starve Putin’s war machine into collapse?
00:00 - Ukraine Drone Strategy Starves Russian Army Logistics
02:00 - Ukraine Squeezes 4 Russian Army Supply Chokepoints
03:10 - Ukraine Drones Destroy 463 Russian Trucks Per Day
08:40 - Occupied Crimea Faces Severe Food and Fuel Shortages
11:55 - Ukraine War Triggers Massive Food Inflation Inside Russia
14:58 - Will Ukraine Liberate Crimea by Cutting Supply Lines
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00:00 - Ukraine Drone Strategy Starves Russian Army Logistics
02:00 - Ukraine Squeezes 4 Russian Army Supply Chokepoints
03:10 - Ukraine Drones Destroy 463 Russian Trucks Per Day
08:40 - Occupied Crimea Faces Severe Food and Fuel Shortages
11:55 - Ukraine War Triggers Massive Food Inflation Inside Russia
14:58 - Will Ukraine Liberate Crimea by Cutting Supply Lines
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00:00Food glorious food. No matter how powerful an army is supposed to be, it simply can't function
00:07when soldiers have nothing in their bellies. Ukraine knows that and it just did something
00:11genius that is designed to starve Russia's army to death. This isn't about direct kills or
00:17crippling military infrastructure anymore. Ukraine just delivered a gut shot to Russia that goes so
00:22deep that it has torn out the stomach of Putin's war machine. The one thing that an army can't live
00:27without is now under threat and the impact is already being felt not just by Russia's soldiers
00:32but on a certain peninsula that has been illegally occupied since 2014.
00:37We take you to Chernihivka in Ukraine's south. For most of Putin's invasion, Chernihivka has
00:42served as one of the three main bases of the field armies that Russia maintains in the occupied south.
00:48It's vital. The base along with two others forms the stomach of the Russian military in south of
00:53Ukraine and its survival is key to keeping Putin's patsies fed just about well enough for them to
00:59launch their fruitless assaults against Ukraine's defenses and to maintain their own defense of the
01:03territory that they have illegally occupied. Chernihivka was supposed to be out of Ukraine's
01:08range, a safe haven for Russian field armies. But Ukraine just flipped all of that on its head.
01:14On June 1st, the 422nd Separate Regiment of Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces scored a direct hit
01:20against a Russian supply truck near the settlement of Yelisayivka, which is in the Zaporizhia Oblast.
01:26That alone would be noteworthy. Any supply truck that Ukraine takes out is a truck that can no
01:31longer provide Russia's forces with the food and firepower they need. However, what makes this
01:36strike truly remarkable is that it occurred 23 kilometers from Chernihivka. And it's not just that
01:41the strike was 23 kilometers away. Ukraine's drones traveled 23 kilometers to the southeast of Chernihivka,
01:47proving that they are not only capable of reaching a base that Russia thought was untouchable,
01:52but they can blow right past it to take out a supply truck that may well have been en route
01:56to
01:56the base. What Ukraine has just done goes beyond hitting a truck on a key row. As Ukraine war
02:01analyst Clement Molan points out, Ukraine is now hitting Russian trucks as they arrive at tactical
02:07level positions. Molan also explains why that matters so much in a post on X. Only few towns remain to
02:13host
02:13four armies that are on the front and their logistics and command posts. The main area is
02:18along the railway near Chernihivka, Kamyanka, and Rozivka. In other words, the more that Ukraine
02:23is able to strike the logistical network that serves these towns at the tactical level,
02:27the harder it becomes for Russia to supply the four armies that use this trio of settlements as their
02:32bases. That's the type of gutshot that tears into the stomach of an entire military. Ukraine's
02:37intensifying campaign against Russian logistics isn't just about stopping fuel and military
02:42equipment in their tracks. Russia's destroyed trucks could carry anything, including the vital
02:47food supplies needed to fuel a ground army that is being ordered to carry out nonstop assaults in
02:51Ukraine's south and east. Those assaults either don't happen or are severely weakened when soldiers
02:56don't have food in their stomachs. The burning remains of a supply truck 23 kilometers to the southeast
03:01of Chernihivka is an explosive message to Russia that four entire field armies are now at risk of
03:07being starved out of their positions. Here's where it gets really serious for Russia. If this was a
03:12story of a single burning supply truck then it wouldn't mean much. A truck full of supplies being
03:16lost does hurt Russia but it's not enough to cripple a field army, let alone four. But it's not just
03:21one
03:21truck, it's hundreds of them. Ukraine has launched a concerted mid-range campaign that has resulted in the
03:26complete choking off of Russian supplies in territories that Russia never thought that Ukraine would be
03:31able to strike. The three days between May 30th and June 1st are indicative of the immense success
03:37that Ukraine is experiencing with this campaign. On May 30th Russia lost 483 vehicles and fuel tankers
03:44to Ukraine's mid-range strike drones. The next day brought even bigger losses, 524 vehicles lost.
03:51And on June 1st Ukraine capped a trio of devastating days with another 384 takedowns of Russian supply
03:57vehicles, creating a three-day average of 463 Russian trucks per day.
04:02If the truck in Chernihivko is a sign that Ukraine can hit deeper than Russia expected,
04:07the sheer scale of the attacks seen over these three days is a signal that Ukraine is also
04:11manufacturing medium-range drones in such massive numbers that they have the potential to starve
04:16Russia's southern armies out of existence. Of course, it's not like stories of starving Russian
04:20soldiers are anything new. Earlier in 2026, Ukrainian intelligence revealed that some Russian soldiers are so
04:26desperate for food that they are resorting to cannibalizing the remains of their dead comrades
04:30to get some meat in their bellies. In other cases, RFU news reports Russian soldiers are shooting each
04:35other to get their hands on food. And intercepted communications on the Lehman front in Donetsk
04:41show that there is already a problem with Russia's logistics in Ukraine's east.
04:44We used to get one or two chocolate bars dropped to us twice a day. Now it's the third day
04:49we haven't
04:49eaten at all and tomorrow will be the fourth, one soldier is heard saying in an intercepted recording.
04:54But what Ukraine is doing in its southern territories is different. All of these stories
04:59involve isolated cases of Russian soldiers being so desperate for food that they go to extremes to
05:04get something in their stomachs. Yes, localized Ukrainian campaigns that left these soldiers unable to
05:09receive supplies would have played a part, but there was nothing concerted going on from Ukraine there.
05:14Now there is. An entire campaign has been designed to cripple Russia's real logistics,
05:18and it's being supported by dedicated programs such as the Logistics Lockdown Initiative,
05:22created by Ukraine's Ministry of Defense toward the end of May, and a new generation of drones that
05:28enable Ukraine to strike deeper and harder than ever before. Keep those drones in mind,
05:32we'll be coming back to them in a moment. Let's come back to the trio of towns that Molan mentions.
05:37Chernihivka, Kamyanka, and Rozyvka aren't just the settlements that Russia has chosen as the host of
05:42four of its field armies. They're logistical choke points. Food and supplies roll through these towns on
05:47hundreds of trucks every single day. Trains alone can't reach these towns, and they would just be
05:52larger targets for Ukraine's drones to strike anyway. No matter what alternative routes Russia
05:56may try to find for its trucks, the reality that can't be avoided is that all of them have to
06:01converge
06:02on this trio of towns to keep Russia's southern field armies fed and supplied. It's unavoidable.
06:07What was supposed to be unbreachable has now been struck, and Ukraine has the ability to make sure that
06:12these logistical choke points become the death of Russia's southern armies. Euromiden Press posits
06:17a future where Ukraine sends swarms of AI-powered middle-range drones toward the three settlements
06:22in question. Those drones will be programmed to strike any trucks that they see right at the points
06:27where those trucks are most needed by Russia. The vehicles have to converge on Chernihivka,
06:31Kamyanka, and Rozyvka. Russia's military planning has left it with no other option. Ukraine has proven
06:36that it can reach this layer of the Russian rear. Next up, a concerted campaign to make these logistical
06:41nodes utterly useless to Russia's four southern field armies. Ukraine has the drones to make
06:46this happen too. On May 30th, the BBC reported that it had verified 14 incidents within the past
06:52week of Ukrainian drones taking out Russian vehicles carrying food, fuel, and ammunition
06:57on critical routes connecting Russia to occupied Crimea and other occupied territories in southern
07:02Ukraine. That's a very small number compared to the reality of what's happening, but what makes
07:06this report so interesting is that many of the incidents involve the use of the Hornet drone.
07:10This drone, which costs just $5,000 to make, carries a 5kg warhead and can travel
07:16up to 200km, is AI-powered. It's been trained on literally thousands of hours of drone footage
07:21recorded by Ukraine, meaning it knows precisely what it needs to target without requiring human
07:26intervention to make its strikes. These are the types of drones that Ukraine can use to starve
07:30Russia's southern field armies. All that Ukraine has to do is send them to loiter around the three
07:35settlements we've mentioned in this video. AI does the rest. The Hornet spots a potential target,
07:40identifies it based on the thousands of hours of footage used to train the drone's AI, and then
07:45zones in. And because these drones use AI, they're even resistant to jamming techniques that Russia
07:49employs to disrupt more traditional FPV and satellite-guided drones. Army recognition adds that this
07:55type of technology isn't necessarily restricted to a single type of drone. Palantir's Prisma
08:00battlefield management system underpins what the Hornet does, and that's a system that could likely
08:05be used to infuse more of Ukraine's middle-range drones with the AI targeting capabilities that they
08:10need to deliver shot after shot to Russia's stomach. This is what Putin fears. Ukraine is actively
08:16working to cut off supplies to four southern field armies. What we're seeing is just the beginning.
08:21As Ukraine continues to scale up its mid-range strike campaign, it infuses more of its drones with
08:26AI. The wave of strikes we're seeing now will become a tsunami. Hundreds of trucks being taken
08:31out will become thousands as Ukraine follows a simple game plan. Shatter the logistics and the food
08:36is lost. And to make matters worse for Russia, it's not just the food trucks that Ukraine can target.
08:42Fuel tankers being lost to Ukraine's mid-range strategy offer yet more hits to the Russian stomach.
08:47How? What does a food truck need to transport its cargo? Fuel. If Russian fuel is burning on the same
08:53roads that the country's food is being destroyed, you can get a double whammy of starvation. The
08:57lost fuel can no longer be used, meaning even supply trucks that contain food intended for Ukraine's
09:02South can't go anywhere. They're being crippled without being struck. And if you have any doubt
09:06that this could happen, the BBC explains why you shouldn't. He notes that there is a massive fuel
09:11shortage in Crimea that has forced gas stations to restrict the amount of fuel that drivers can buy
09:16to just 20 liters per vehicle. That's not enough gas to get a food truck from Crimea into the southern
09:21territories. And every time that Russia puts a truckload of diesel or gasoline on any of the
09:25routes that connect Crimea to Ukraine's occupied South is delivering an invitation to Ukraine's
09:30drones to strike once more. Speaking of Crimea, the peninsula that Russia occupied in 2014 hasn't
09:36escaped Ukraine's shots to Russia's stomach. As Ukraine embarks on a campaign to starve out the
09:40Russian army, food problems are running rampant inside Crimea. But before we dig deeper into that,
09:45this is The Military Show and we bring you the full picture, not just the headlines.
09:51Subscribe today so you don't miss out on any of our videos exposing the true state of Russia's army
09:55in Ukraine. On June 9, United24 Media published an interesting report on the state of the food
10:01market in Crimea right now. It says that Ukraine's Center for Countering Disinformation claims that many
10:06of Crimea's grocery stores are running out of basic goods, including cereals, flour, sugar,
10:11pasta, and salt. Some retail chains have already introduced restrictions on the sale of goods to
10:16one person, which only increases panic among the population, the center claims. And it says that
10:21the reason for this sorry state of affairs is that Ukrainian mid-range strikes have been stopping Russian
10:25food trucks from reaching the peninsula. As if failing to feed his soldiers wasn't enough of a problem,
10:30Putin and his Kremlin cronies now have to deal with a food shortage that impacts civilians.
10:34That's a major issue for Putin. As much as the puppet government in Crimea might try to pretend that
10:39nothing is happening, they can't pull the wool over the eyes of those who clearly see empty
10:43supermarket shelves. Propaganda doesn't put food in people's bellies, and there is reportedly
10:48already growing public concern in Crimea over the issue. Russia is now losing the ability to sustain
10:54the flow of supplies into the Crimean peninsula, and that's an even bigger problem than it appears
10:59on the surface. The source of this food shortage is Ukraine's attacks on the Crimean land bridge that
11:04connects the occupied peninsula to the southern territories of Ukraine that Russia currently controls.
11:08In other words, there's a two-way street going on here. Supplies from those southern territories
11:13aren't reaching Crimea. That much is obvious. However, Russia also transports supplies into Crimea
11:18from the Russian mainland, often via the Kerch bridge. Those supplies then get shipped along the
11:23very same supply routes that Ukraine is hitting as they journey towards the southern territories and,
11:27in many cases, toward the choke points in Chernihivka, Kemyanka and Rozivka. You can see where this is going.
11:33First, it's the civilians in Crimea who see their food supplies dwindle as Russia will
11:37prioritize food shipments to the front. But eventually, that won't work anymore. As Ukraine
11:41ups the intensity of its mid-range strikes, supplies that would have flowed from Crimea
11:45into the southern territories don't arrive anymore. The four field armies starve and Russia's assaults
11:51both in Ukraine's south and east suffer as a result. Ukraine has a bulky pair of hands.
11:56Right now, they're strangling Russia in all of the occupied territories. But it goes even deeper than this.
12:01As the four field armies to the south grapple with the knowledge that Ukraine can destroy their food
12:05shipments at will and Crimean occupiers find themselves looking at empty supermarket shelves,
12:10there are even more food issues afoot. Only these issues aren't affecting the occupied territories.
12:15They're impacting Russia itself. Now, we're not about to argue that Russia is dealing with the
12:19types of food shortages that are impacting its occupiers. That would be a lie. But what is happening
12:24in Russia is that four years of warfare have crippled the country's economy, resulting in the price of
12:29food rising to levels that the average Russian simply can't handle. There is still food on the shelves,
12:33but that food has become so expensive due to inflation that Russian civilians are finding
12:38it harder to afford to eat than they have in a very long time. What we see here is that
12:42Ukraine
12:43doesn't even have to directly strike Russia's stomach to make the country starve. Attacks
12:47against anything Russian will do the job and Ukraine makes things worse for Putin and his people with
12:52each day that it successfully defends itself against the invasion. The BBC exposed the scale of
12:57Russia's food inflation problem in a February article. It spoke to a Moscow-based advertising specialist who
13:02revealed that his monthly food budget had risen from $450 to $555, which is a 22% increase.
13:10This didn't happen over the course of several years. That massive price shock was inflicted on
13:14Alexander in the space of a single month. Taking a wider view, we can see that prices of almost all
13:19basic goods in Russia have rocketed up between 2024 and 2026. Potatoes and chocolate are the big
13:25offenders as their prices have risen by 167% and 125% respectively in two years.
13:32But no matter where you look you see a similar story. The price of milk has gone up by 59
13:37% in
13:37Russia between 2024 and early 26. Canned beans now cost 55% more, cheese is 50% higher and even
13:44a basic
13:45loaf of white bread sets a Russian back 45% more in 2026 than it did in 2024. This is
13:51the cost of the
13:52Ukraine war for Russia that we often don't see. Direct starvation on the front is being accompanied
13:57by the unsustainable rise in food prices on the mainland. The Moscow Times also reported on this
14:02issue in April. It claims that the demand for low-cost foods and store brand items is skyrocketing all
14:07over Russia because shoppers can no longer afford the branded goods that they would have bought just
14:11a few short months ago. Russia still tries to claim that real income growth is somewhat healthy.
14:16The state statistics agency Rostat did note that growth slowed in 2025 down to 7.4% from 8.2
14:23% in
14:232024 and that the last quarter of 2025 had seen income growth drop to 5.8%. These would be half
14:29decent figures were it not for the fact that food inflation is outpacing these growth stats by
14:33several multiples for even the most basic items. Again, Russia isn't in danger of running out of
14:38food for its people on the mainland. We are unlikely to see a Crimea-type situation happening in Moscow.
14:43But what we are seeing is the economic impact of Putin's war coming home to the average Russian.
14:48An economy that is veering closer to ruin than it has since 2022 is making it harder and harder for
14:53the average Russian to eat. Russia's four field armies in the south have it much worse. At least
14:59they will soon, as Ukraine expands its mid-range campaign to cripple the Russian army's stomach.
15:04It's not a drone taking out one truck 23 kilometers southeast of Chernihivka that's the major problem.
15:09What this strike represents is the killer for Russia's army. Safe zones in the occupied territories
15:14are now under threat. Ukraine has identified the logistical choke points for Russia's entire
15:19southern military posture. Now what it needs to do is squeeze. Swarms of AI drones and more attacks on
15:25trucks heading between Crimea and the occupied south will come. Soon, the empty Crimea shelves will
15:30be accompanied by food running out for four entire field armies. The result will be faltering offensives
15:36and more opportunities for Ukraine to counter and drive Russia back than ever before. Crimea offers
15:41the clearest signs that Russia is struggling with food and fuel more than any other occupied territory.
15:47We have touched on this already in the video but it is Ukraine's campaign against the crucial R-280
15:51land bridge that is doing the damage. For the first time since 2014, the liberation of Crimea no
15:56longer looks like a pipe dream. It looks like a sustained campaign that will return the peninsula to Ukraine.
16:01So find out more by watching our video and if you enjoyed this video remember to subscribe to the
16:06military show to see more exposes of the crippling problems that Putin's patsies face in the occupied
16:12territories. And thank you for watching.
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