The Unmanned Systems Forces (SBS) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine executed a sweeping, multi-axis drone campaign overnight into Sunday, June 7.
Colonel Robert “Magyar” Brovdi, Commander of the Unmanned Systems Forces, claimed formal responsibility for the large-scale offensive in an official operational briefing published on Facebook.
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Command confirmation and scope of damage
Brovdi detailed that Ukrainian long-range unmanned assets “visited” 26 distinct enemy installations scattered across the temporarily occupied territories (TOT) of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Crimea, alongside targeted penetrations into Russia’s Bryansk region.
The strikes targeted multiple components of the Kremlin’s rear logistical and defense networks. A Russian surface-to-air missile (SAM) complex was completely destroyed. Drone impacts severely damaged three locomotives and two rail couplings loaded with military fuel.
Energy distribution was crippled through targeted strikes on four separate electrical substations. Six telecommunications towers were disabled or structurally compromised.
Brovdi noted that the coordinated disruption effectively severed critical lines of communication and prevented substantial shipments of military cargo from reaching frontline deployment zones.
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Independent monitoring channels and regional partisan groups – including Exilenova+, ASTRA, ATESH, and Krymskyi Veter (Crimean Wind) – provided localized confirmation of the extensive damage. In the occupied Donetsk region, drone waves targeted the strategic Zuiivska Thermal Power Plant (TES).
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Local eyewitnesses documented distinct arrivals followed by the eruption of a prominent structural fire within the boundaries of the facility. Concurrently, a separate series of explosions was reported further east in the Chystiakove area, where munitions directly impacted rail logistics infrastructure.
Similar disruptions were recorded across the occupied Luhansk region, where loitering munitions struck key electrical substations and railway transit hubs, triggering localized blazes.
In temporarily occupied Crimea, the Semykolodiazianka oil depot in the settlement of Yedy-Kuyu (formerly Lenine), located in the Kerch district, bore the brunt of the aerial assault. Satellite imagery quickly confirmed a massive fire at the complex following multiple drone detonations.
The high-capacity depot, originally built during the Soviet era, had its operations restored in 2015 under the management of the Russian enterprise LLC “BK-Terminal” to satisfy the fuel requirements of occupying forces.
A relentless asymmetric campaign
The June 7 operations follow closely on the heels of another massive, 1,000-kilometer deep-penetration strike on June 6, where the Special Operations Forces (SSO), SBS, and SBU successfully breached airspace near St. Petersburg to damage the Kronstadt naval base and the 15th Arsenal of the Russian Navy.
President Volodymyr Zelensky had previously characterized those operations as “long-range sanctions” designed to impose a direct economic and military cost on the Russian state for its ongoing aggression.
By systematically hunting down fuel networks, switching yards, locomotives, and power links within the span of 48 hours, Ukraine’s newly expanded unmanned branches are continuing to enforce a strict regime of supply-chain attrition far behind the immediate front lines.
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