Ukraine Claims 6,000 Russian FPV Drones Destroyed

If the numbers are accurate, this was not a strike. It was a warehouse extinction event.

Ukraine says it has destroyed approximately 6,000 Russian FPV drones in a precision strike on a storage site in the Rostov region, as UNITED24 reports.

The claim comes from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which reported that containers packed with ready to deploy FPV drones were hit near Rostov-on-Don.

Six thousand FPV drones is not a rounding error. That is months of battlefield pressure, surveillance flights, and kamikaze runs erased in a single blast wave, assuming the estimate holds up.

Several additional containers storing drone components were also reportedly damaged, which could slow assembly and field replenishment. In a war where FPV drones are often treated as disposable ammunition, stockpiles matter.

Command Post Hit in Kursk Region

The drone storage strike was not a solo act.

On the night of February 9, Ukrainian forces also targeted a Russian airborne command post near Sudzha in Kursk Oblast. Ukrainian officials say the command infrastructure was directly hit, though no casualty figures have been released.

Command posts are the brain of any operation. You can have drones, artillery, and armored vehicles, but without coordination they become noise instead of force. Hitting a command node inside Russian territory adds both tactical and psychological weight.

It forces Russia to spend more resources protecting rear areas, not just the front.

Ammo Depot Destroyed in Kherson

Further south, Ukrainian forces struck and destroyed an ammunition warehouse near Novooleksiivka in the Kherson Oblast, territory currently under Russian occupation. The scale of the losses is still being assessed.

Ammo depots are not glamorous targets, but they are brutally important. When shells, rockets, and small arms ammunition disappear in fire and smoke, frontline tempo slows.

Ukraine says these operations are part of a broader campaign to degrade Russian logistics and command capabilities, not only in occupied Ukrainian regions such as Zaporizhzhia Oblast and Donetsk Oblast, but also inside Russia itself.

Previous strikes reportedly included facilities linked to missile operations at Kapustin Yar in Astrakhan Oblast.

The bigger picture is clear. This war is increasingly about production lines, storage hubs, firmware updates, and supply chains. Blow up enough containers in the rear, and the front line starts to feel it days or weeks later.

DroneXL’s Take

If confirmed, the destruction of 6,000 FPV drones is more than a headline number. It highlights how industrialized this drone war has become. FPV drones are no longer niche tools. They are mass produced battlefield assets, treated almost like artillery shells.

The side that protects its warehouses and disrupts the other’s supply chain will shape the tempo of this conflict. In 2026, the decisive battles may not be fought only in trenches, but in storage yards packed with foam lined drone crates waiting for launch.

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