“Every second Russian will fall to drones”: ruslar sürprizlərə, təlaş və qorxuya hazır olsunlar

[Music] Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces, SBS, announced on the 31st of October, 2025 that they are opening 15,000 new positions, half of which are available for specialists from civilian life. Amid the ongoing Russo Ukrainian war, the SBS says its units recently passed the milestone of eliminating more than 7,000 Russian soldiers in October alone, which makes for 1/3 of verified Russian combat losses and 23,500 targets hit in that month. Major Robert Madia Brovdi, SBS commander of Ukraine, said the drone units currently make up just 2% of the military but account for 35% of verified strikes against Russian targets. He described the force as a system that works and announced its expansion. Bravi declared that drones are now waiting for pilots, not the other way around, urging Ukrainians to join one of the 12 SBS units. He announced over 15,000 vacancies, emphasizing that many are suited for people with skills from civilian life, such as electronics, programming, construction, or project management. It is time to scale the system. Bravi said in his recruitment video highlighting that the goal is to increase the SBS share within the defense forces from 2% to 5%. According to Army Inform, the SBS is credited with causing roughly 1/3 of all verified Russian losses. Bravi stated that the force has buried every third Russian worm and vowed that soon it would be every second. Experts say that few could have imagined Ukraine striking deep inside Russian territory, let alone targeting strategic energy facilities nearly 2,000 km from its borders at the beginning of Moscow's full-scale invasion in 2022. Now almost 4 years later, such strikes have become routine, occurring almost daily without drawing surprise. Ukraine has been striking the Russian military infrastructure since 2022, including gunpowder, lead, and tank engine production plants. At the beginning of 2024, Ukraine started to gradually intensify its drone attacks on Russia's oil energy facilities, in particular, refineries and depots. Since January the 21st of Russia's 38 major refineries have been struck, marking a 48% increase in successful attacks compared to all of 2024. The BBC reported Ukrainian drone strikes on Russia's energy sector have reportedly disabled nearly 40% of the country's oil refining capacity, plunging Moscow into its worst fuel crisis in decades. The sustained wave of drone attacks has crippled Russia's refining industry, forcing unprecedented shutdowns and sparking a nationwide fuel shortage. Ukraine's strikes on Russian oil refineries have dented Moscow's revenues more than economic sanctions. The head of Ukraine's main intelligence director at HUR, Kirilo Budenov, stated during the Kiev International Economic Forum. The financial impact of the strikes is a mathematical truth directly inflicting far greater damage on Russia's profits than any sanctions to date. He said this is also an unpleasant truth because it leads us to the following conclusion. It is clearly not enough. Budanov said the sanctions are not enough. If it continues as it is, it will not have such an impact as to change Russia's world view, but in conjunction with what we are doing, it will yield results and is already yielding them. Ukraine's armed forces carry out the strikes on Russian oil refineries primarily using domestically produced weapons, he said, allowing Kiev to employ these systems in ways that align with its own strategic vision [Music] at a secret location in rural Ukraine. Columns of attack drones are assembled at night and in near silence to strike deep inside Russia. According to Associated Press, their targets are strategic oil refineries, fuel depots, and military logistics hubs. Since the summer, Ukraine's long range drone campaign has ramped up dramatically, pounding energy infrastructure across Russia and stretching Moscow's air defenses thin. Built from parts made in a scattered network of workshops, these drones now fly much further than at any point in the war. Officers in body armor move with quick precision. Headlamps glow red to stay hidden. Engines sputter like old motorcycles as exhaust fumes drift into the moonless night. Minutes later, one after another, the drones lift from a makeshift runway and head east. The commander overseeing the operation, a broad-shouldered man identified only by his call sign, Fidel, in accordance with Ukrainian military regulations, watches through night vision goggles as the drones climb into the star-filled sky. He says that the drones have evolved and instead of flying 500 km, now some can strike targets in Russia within a 1,00 km radius of the border. Effectiveness consists of three components. The first is hardware. This includes drones, technology, and everything else that goes with it. The second is planning, specifically the planning stage and analysis stage of the operation. And the third is people, most importantly, those who manage resources and control this evolution that is taking place. Fidel said the strikes have caused gasoline shortages in Russia, even forcing rationing in some regions and underscoring a growing vulnerability in the country's infrastructure. Western analysts say the attacks on energy infrastructure so far have had a serious but not crippling effect. Ukrainian drones have repeatedly hit 16 major Russian refineries, representing about 38% of the country's nominal refining capacity, according to a recent review by the Carnegie Endowment, a US-based think tank. But it argues the actual impact has been considerably more limited. Most plants resumed operations within weeks, and Russia's refining output has been cushioned by idle capacity and existing fuel surpluses. The deep strikes have however given key of the initiative at an important moment. The United States and Europe are ramping up sanctions on Russia's oil industry even as Kiev's request for US long-range Tomahawk missiles has stalled. Much of Ukraine's fleet is homegrown. The Ludi, a workhorse of the nightly attacks, is a waist high craft with a sausage-shaped body, a propeller at the back, and a distinctive triangular tail. It looks neither sleek nor intimidating more Home Depot than Loheed Martin, but the ease of assembly means it can be kept hidden and constantly tweaked, optimized to slip through heavily monitored frontline airspace. Fore! Foreign! Foreign! forchech. [Music] [Music] Foreign [Music] speech.