The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said forces hit four Russian drone control posts, singling out a Rubikon site in occupied Berdiansk as the most significant target.
The Southern Defense Forces said the Berdiansk site was 107 kilometers (66 miles) from the line of contact and released footage of the operation. The General Staff said the facility served as a temporary deployment site and UAV control post for a unit of Russia’s Rubikon Centre for Advanced Unmanned Technologies. It described Rubikon as among Russia’s top drone warfare organizations.
The other reported posts were near Oleshky in Kherson Oblast, near Bilytske in Donetsk Oblast and in Russia’s Bryansk Oblast. The Southern Defense Forces said UAV batteries from Harpy Group took part, alongside the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine, the Security Service of Ukraine’s Special Operations Center “A” and the 412th Separate Unmanned Systems Regiment.
The General Staff said disabling drone control posts was expected to reduce Russian drone activity over Ukrainian positions and roads. It said losses were still being assessed. The Southern Defense Forces later reported losses among personnel who trained drone operators but gave no count.
The statements did not estimate damage or quantify any change in Russian drone activity.
