Drop Everything… Ukraine Just Had the BIGGEST Night of the War

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Ukraine delivered one of its largest drone campaigns of the war, reportedly striking a record 1,725 Russian targets in just 24 hours. In this video, we examine the reported attacks on military infrastructure, fuel depots, radar systems, ships, and logistics routes, and what they could mean for the future of the conflict. We also break down the sources behind these claims, Russia’s response, and why Ukraine’s expanding drone strategy is reshaping the battlefield. Subscribe for more military analysis.  ⏱️ CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Ukraine Drone Strike Destroys 1,725 Russian Targets 02:49 - Ukraine Drones Sink 15 Russian Shadow Fleet Vessels 06:24 - Ukraine Destroys 3 Russian Radar Systems 07:58 - Ukraine Attacks Baherove Airbase in Occupied Crimea 09:33 - Ukraine Drones Hit Russian Oil Depots 600km Away 12:36 - Can Ukraine's Drones Trigger a Russian Fuel Collapse?  Support us directly as we bring you independent, up-to-date reporting on military news and global conflicts by clicking here: https://www.youtube.com/@TheMilitaryShow/join  #militarystrategy #militarydevelopments #militaryanalysis #themilitaryshow  SOURCES: https://pastebin.com/LDiq8xP0

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00:00The 24 hours leading into the morning of July 13th will go down in infamy.

00:05Ukraine had its biggest night of the war yet, as it broke records with a drone swarm that engulfed

00:12Russia. This was an unbelievable night for Ukraine. Over 1,700 Russian targets were destroyed.

00:21Ukraine's drones proved once again that Russia's air defense network is failing.

00:26Russia has never lost so much in a single 24-hour period before. And somehow, it gets worse for

00:33Putin. This wasn't a climax. It was Ukraine delivering a message that its strikes are going

00:38to get stronger and more effective as the months drag on. Starting with the headline figure,

00:44United24 media reports that Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces managed to strike

00:501,725 Russian targets in 24 hours leading into the morning of July 13th,

00:58with most of those targets being hit during a devastating series of overnight attacks.

01:03That update comes from the commander of Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces, the exuberant Robert

01:09Brovdy, in a telegram post that provides some of the key details.

01:14Beyond the record-breaking number of strikes, the SBS caused 418 Russian casualties in 24 hours,

01:21and July 13th built on a month where the SBS has risen to become one of the most effective

01:26military units that Ukraine has. So far in July, 4,181 Russian casualties can be attributed to SBS

01:35drones. The same group has also managed to strike 19,759 Russian targets in 13 days,

01:44giving us a daily average of almost 1,520. If we take away the 1,725 targets that Ukraine hit

01:52on July

01:5213th, that average drops down to 1,502. That shows us how remarkable the SBS's record-breaking July 13th

02:01really was. Over 200 more targets than the average, which has let Russia know that it needs to be

02:07scared. Ukraine's drone operators aren't slowing down. They are intensifying their attacks and

02:13there's nothing that Russia can do about it. Now, we're not going to pretend that we can give you

02:18the rundown of all 1,725 targets that Ukraine struck on July 12th and into 13th. The video would

02:25be days long if we tried. And besides, Brovdy hasn't provided any other details beyond the number.

02:30We can safely assume that a whole lot of the Russian rear was targeted as Ukraine continues

02:36a logistical lockdown campaign that is shredding through Russian fuel and supply trucks at an

02:42alarming rate, in addition to taking down command posts, air defenses, and troop gatherings beyond

02:47the front. Instead, we're going to give you a few highlights of the night. And all of those

02:52highlights come from a series of strikes conducted by the Security Service of Ukraine, or SBU,

02:57which coordinates with the SBS to take out high-value targets in the occupied territories.

03:02Let's start with the ships. According to United24 Media, Ukraine's drones took out a pair of Russian

03:08Project 12150 Mangust patrol boats during the record-breaking 24 hours. Granted, these patrol

03:15boats aren't the most impressive warships in Russia's Black Sea fleet, but then most of the stronger warships

03:20have been destroyed or are hiding as far away from Ukraine's drones as possible. Still, Russian ships says

03:26that these patrol ships exist to help Russia guard coastal regions and that they're equipped with

03:31either 12.7 or 14.5 mm guns, which could be used to shoot down drones or attack uncrewed maritime

03:37vessels.

03:38What we see here is a continuation of Ukraine's gradual whittling down of a Black Sea fleet that has

03:43practically become a non-factor in the war already. On top of the patrol boats, the SBU and SBS also

03:49took aim at

03:50several of the ferries that Russia has been using to transport supplies and equipment into occupied

03:55Crimea. In the Kerch Strait, the Maria and the Yesik went down to Ukraine's drones. Ukraine also targeted

04:01Port Kavkaz, where it struck the Panagia and the Levrenti ferries, presumably while they were docked and

04:07perhaps awaiting loading. Don't be fooled by the use of the word ferries, though this implies civilian ships,

04:13they are anything but. Russia has commandeered any ship that it can get its hands on to keep its Black

04:19Sea and Azov Sea logistics running. When Ukraine attacks these types of ships, it's crippling Russia's

04:24waterborne logistics network. And over the past week or so, that seems to have become a priority for Ukraine.

04:31July 13 saw Ukraine continue a campaign that has caused panic in the Sea of Azov. In the eight days

04:37up to

04:37and including July 13, Ukraine has hit 105 of Russia's Shadow Fleet vessels in that sea. That's

04:44what these ferries are, Shadow Fleet ships that Russia is using to move supplies around.

04:48The same outlet adds that Ukraine's drones added seven fuel tankers and a few more cargo ships,

04:54a ferry and tugboats to their July 13 tally, for a total of 15 vessels struck. This is an ongoing

05:01campaign that is designed to make the Sea of Azov, the Kerch Strait and any other waterway that Russia

05:07uses to keep occupied Crimea alive completely untenable. And it's working. Ukraine is raining

05:13down so many drones on the Sea of Azov that it's hitting one ship every 112 minutes, Brovdy declares.

05:20Russia has been forced to react. Though it's still trying to use the Sea of Azov for logistical

05:25purposes, as evidenced by the fact that ships are being sunk, it has been forced to close the Don

05:30Azov Channel that links the Don River to the Sea of Azov. That closure began during the evening of July

05:3610th, and it's a nightmare for Russia. It means that the ships carrying grain that Russia exports to

05:42other nations can't sail, and it also essentially means that the Kerch Strait near Crimea has been

05:47shut down. That strait links the Sea of Azov to the Black Sea, so we could also view Ukraine's drone

05:52strikes in the former as another way to isolate the latter. Russia hasn't been able to lift the

05:57restrictions it has in place yet. July 13th saw Reuters report that the restrictions are still in place.

06:03Ukraine clearly isn't going to relent. Another 15 ships down on July 13th means another extension of

06:10the restrictions. And come July 14th and beyond, we'll likely be hearing about yet more tankers and

06:16supply ships that have been struck in the Sea of Azov. We move on to another highlight of Ukraine's

06:22record-breaking night. Ukraine's drones also struck a trio of stationary radar systems that Russia uses to

06:29detect both maritime and aerial drones. Don't underestimate the importance of this particular

06:34strike. Radar systems are incredibly complex and difficult to replace, especially when Russia is

06:41dealing with the sanctions that Ukraine's partners have put in place. Russia also lacks everything that

06:46it needs to create a good radar industry. It doesn't have the microelectronics needed for the most advanced

06:52radars, Global Defense Corps says. Nor does it have the manpower, experience, expertise, or talent

06:58to build better radars than the old ones that it already has. So when Ukraine takes out radar systems,

07:04it puts a burden on a Russian industry that struggles to replace them in every aspect.

07:09Plus, Ukraine opens doors. The three radars destroyed near the Sea of Azov on July 13th won't be able to

07:16detect Ukrainian drones coming tomorrow. We don't know which specific systems Ukraine's drones took out,

07:22but it almost doesn't matter. More radars down create more opportunities for future attacks.

07:27Plus, Ukraine gets to enjoy the irony that the very weapons these radars are supposed to detect

07:32were the ones that took those radars out of the war. We're only part way through the highlight reel.

07:37We have some more Ukrainian targets to cover, and we're also going to explain what Ukraine's

07:41expanding aerial campaign means for the future of its war with Russia. But before we get to all of

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07:57Next, Ukraine had a larger target in mind than radars during its 24 hours of destruction.

08:03That target was the Baharova Air Base. Located in occupied Crimea, about 14 kilometers away from Kerch,

08:09this base was supposedly abandoned in 1996. It isn't abandoned anymore. Though Russia hasn't been

08:17using it for its intended purpose, Baharova is still home to hangars that Russia used to store

08:21specialized equipment and military vehicles. That fact makes it a target for Ukraine's logistical

08:27lockdown campaign, and July 13th saw Ukraine's strike. How successful that strike was is yet to be

08:34seen. Ukraine hasn't provided any details beyond noting that the base was attacked.

08:39But interestingly, it looks like Baharova wasn't the only military base that fell into Ukraine's

08:44crosshairs on July 13th. According to the Moscow Times, Russia's FSB claims that it foiled Ukrainian

08:51attacks against the Shagol and Ukrainka air bases, which are in the Chelyabinsk and Amur regions,

08:58respectively, on the same night that the Baharova base was targeted. Only it wasn't drones this time

09:03around. The FSB makes mention of arresting perpetrators, suggesting a sabotage operation

09:08was underway. So we suppose that's one small victory for Russia during one of its worst nights of the

09:13war so far. Not much of one, granted. But it would have been humiliating to have saboteurs succeed at

09:20bases deep inside Russia, while Ukraine's drones smashed over 1,700 targets elsewhere. Ukraine will

09:27likely try again. Those bases, just like everything else in Russia, are far from safe.

09:33Back to more Ukrainian successes. As we await more information about the Baharova attack,

09:38we also saw that Ukraine carried out some successful strikes in the Port Kavkaz region.

09:43The two ferries we mentioned earlier were among them. However, Ukraine's drone operators also managed

09:48to destroy a trio of petroleum storage tanks located at the oil trans-shipment complex in this port,

09:53along with a train that Russia uses to transport fuel to the Kavkaz freight station.

09:58We feel like we are saying this every day now. This is yet more fuel destroyed as Ukraine continues

10:03its campaign to isolate Crimea. But even more than that, another successful strike against Port Kavkaz

10:09sends the message to the occupiers in Crimea that Putin isn't able to protect them anymore.

10:15Ukraine can just casually make an attack on this port, part of the largest ever night of strikes

10:19it is conducted, which is starting to make these types of attacks look easy for Ukraine.

10:24We say that Ukraine conducted another attack on Port Kavkaz because it was only a few weeks ago

10:29this port was part of a Ukrainian strike on both sides of the Kerch bridge that was part of the

10:34message we just mentioned. Ukraine devastated the port. On June 21, a Ukrainian drone strike targeted

10:40the port's fuel storage facilities, causing a fire so massive that it was picked up in satellite images.

10:45That fire shut down a port that Russia uses to transport ammo, weapons and fuel into Crimea,

10:51and Ukraine will be hoping for the same result from its July 13 strike.

10:55We have one more highlight for you before we move on. Most of the strikes we have covered so far

11:00have

11:00taken place in the occupied territories or the waters surrounding Crimea. But Ukraine also had a

11:05treat in store for a special facility located in Vyazniki, which is in Russia's Stavropol-Krai. Around

11:11600 kilometers away from Ukraine, Vyazniki is home to an oil depot that contains an entire farm of

11:17storage tanks. The facility stores oil and fuel that eventually makes its way both to Crimea

11:23and the Russian occupation forces that are in southern Ukraine. Think of it as part of a network,

11:29one that is designed to get oil and fuel from Russian plants to where it is needed the most.

11:33Ukraine's attack on the depot appears to have begun during the night of July 12,

11:37based on a report from Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin. And of course, Russia claims to have repelled the

11:43attack. Three drones had been shot down by 0319 on July 13, Sobyanin claimed. But what he didn't

11:50explain is why a massive fire was raging at the facility right around the time when he was claiming

11:55that Russian air defenses were handling the problem. Somebody is being economical with the truth.

12:01It likely won't be long before the usual drone debris excuses are being made to explain why Russia's

12:06air defenses were successful despite Ukraine's target being on fire. Ukraine won't care.

12:12The attack on the Vyazniki depot kicked off a night in which it rained terror down on the Russian

12:16occupiers on a scale that has never been seen before. And just to add some insult to injury,

12:21that depot is very close to Moscow. Just one more reminder from Ukraine that its drones can reach the

12:27capital in case Putin had forgotten. All of this brings us back to the headline that kicked off the

12:32video. 1,725 Russian targets were struck by Ukraine in 24 hours. That number seems almost

12:41hard to believe, especially when compared to what Ukraine was able to achieve with its long-range

12:46campaign just a few short months ago. But as that campaign expands, Russia finds itself in serious

12:52trouble. Here's why. What we're seeing in all of this is an expansion in the scope and scale of

12:57Ukraine's long-range operation. The SBU says so itself, stating, The simultaneous destruction of

13:03dozens of targets in different remote locations in a single night shows that the SBU is expanding the

13:09scale of its long-range special operations. Critical elements of Russia's military and oil infrastructure

13:15will continue to burn, when talking about the strikes we've covered in this video.

13:20The SBU isn't lying. The numbers show us that Ukraine's deep-strike campaign has grown to the point

13:25where Russia simply isn't able to handle it anymore. Ahead of Ukraine's record-breaking 24 hours,

13:32United24 Media published an interesting report showcasing how much Ukraine's long-range campaign

13:37has grown. The outlet says that the first six months of 2026 saw Ukraine strike 697 targets

13:44inside Russia, costing the Kremlin an estimated $6.1 billion in the process. This figure only covers

13:51targets inside Russia, such as the oil refineries that Ukraine has been devastating with drones

13:55all year. When you throw Ukraine's middle-strike campaign into the mix, you can add another 7,028

14:01enemy objects, says the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces, Oleksandr Siersky.

14:07Those numbers are revealing because they also tell us that Ukraine's night of 1,725 strikes must have

14:13mostly included targets on the front. The mid- and long-range targets we've covered were the

14:18highlights, but Russia lost plenty of equipment and soldiers to go along with them. Siersky says that

14:23these numbers demonstrate that Ukraine has no problems hitting whatever it wants to hit

14:27in the middle and long ranges anymore. Russia can't do much to stop Ukraine's drones from taking out

14:33its targets. And if that wasn't bad enough, Ukraine is also taking steps to strengthen its long-range

14:38campaign. Just a couple of days before Ukraine's record-breaking night, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

14:44announced the creation of the Long Range Impact Command. Made official by a presidential decree,

14:50this command will formalize and centralize Ukraine's long-range resources, essentially

14:55making a campaign that is already tearing through Russia and the occupied territories more lethal,

15:01streamlined and effective. Putin must be shaking his head in disbelief. Ukraine is already wreaking

15:07havoc without this command structure, so he can only imagine what will be coming once the new

15:11organization is in place. All of this is happening as part of a wider Ukrainian strategy to disrupt

15:17everything that makes it possible for Putin to continue his war. The concept is simple and as

15:22old as warfare itself. Take out the source of Russian power, both inside Russia and in the

15:28occupied territories, to weaken the soldiers on the front and impose massive costs. What's different

15:33about this traditional approach of establishing aerial dominance is how Ukraine is doing it. Ukraine has a

15:39halfway decent air force, but it's nowhere near large enough to cover all of Ukraine's territory,

15:44never mind flying into Russia to take out targets. What Ukraine is doing instead is making use of

15:49drones and its own low-cost cruise missiles to shatter the Russian war machine from the inside.

15:55Aerial superiority in the traditional sense isn't needed anymore. Rather, Ukraine can send thousands

16:00of drones all over the battlefield and beyond every single month to hinder Russia's attempts to advance,

16:06destroy oil and fuel, and take out targets that Russia thought were out of range.

16:10It's a genius, asymmetric strategy by Ukraine, and it's only going to get better as the war goes on.

16:16Russia is feeling the impact in many ways, no more so than in the fuel crisis that has grown so

16:22extensive

16:22that it affects the entire country. You'll have noticed that fuel and oil tanks and storage

16:28facilities were among Ukraine's targets on July 12th and into 13th. That's been the case for months now.

16:34Ukraine's strategy has resulted in Russia's domestic gasoline production dropping to the point

16:38where it can only service 65% of the country's seasonal demand. Russia is short up to 45,000

16:45metric tons of fuel per day now, which is forcing it to seek fuel from other nations just to keep

16:50up.

16:51In a July 14th report, United24 media also revealed that Russia's fuel shortage is so widespread that

16:58it's leading to the cancellation of fuel tenders that were supposed to keep Russia's emergency services

17:02stocked up. What Ukraine is doing now is exposing what was once one of Russia's greatest strengths

17:08as its biggest vulnerability. Russia isn't supposed to run out of fuel. It's one of the world's biggest

17:14oil-producing nations. But Russia's centralized political system, in which all decisions made

17:19have to run through one man who can't get past his obsession with Ukraine, is making it impossible for

17:25Russia to come up with a quick reaction. Instead, Russia labors, waiting for Putin to make decisions as

17:31Ukraine's drones fly. There is no coordinated crisis response coming for the average Russian, just a vague hope

17:37that Ukraine will relent and Russia will be able to right itself in the future. Relenting won't be

17:43happening anytime soon. A record-breaking night of strikes show us that. But Russia also knows that

17:49it has a lot more of this to come. What Ukraine did on July 13th is part of a 40

17:53-day operation announced

17:55at the end of June that Ukraine says has been designed to pressure Putin into ending his war.

18:00We're less than halfway through that operation, which Zelensky says is based on Ukraine's medium and long-range

18:05sanctions. Can Russia survive another few weeks of this? Can it survive whatever Ukraine has in

18:10store next, if the 40-day operation doesn't deliver what Zelensky wants? It's increasingly looking like

18:17the answer to these questions is no. Russia has never lost so much in a single day. But it wouldn't

18:23surprise us if we're saying the same thing in a few days or weeks, after Ukraine unleashes another swarm

18:28of kinetic sanctions that is even bigger than the one we just saw. For now, Ukraine is going to keep

18:34adding to a 2026 tally that it's a wonder that Russia has made it through the year so far.

18:39Toward the end of June, Ukraine revealed the scale of a 2026 strike storm that has blacked out the sun

18:45over Russia. New milestones have been reached, Russian defenses are completely overwhelmed,

18:50and you can find out all about it by watching our video. And if you enjoyed this video, then don't

18:55forget to hit subscribe so that you can catch more of our coverage of Ukraine's latest victories

19:00against Russia. And thank you, as always, for watching.

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