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1:5 kill ratio: Ukraine inflicts heavy Russian losses using drones, says Finnish president​

https://breakingdefense.com/2026/04...n-losses-using-drones-says-finnish-president/
Ukraine currently has a military advantage over Russia, according to Finnish President Alexander Stubb, with Moscow experiencing personnel losses at a rate five times higher than Kyiv’s, largely due to Ukraine’s steadily improving drone kill rates.
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“I think Ukraine is in a much better place than it has been at any stage in this horrific war — the killing ratio right now is 1:5, one Ukrainian soldier to five Russian soldiers. … The rate at which they’re going now is roughly 150 to 157 dead [Russian] soldiers per square kilometers,” Stubb said during a panel organized by the Brookings Institution on Monday while on an official visit to Washington.
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However, Stubb remained optimistic, especially regarding Ukraine’s combat effectiveness, noting that it has achieved 95 percent of its recent kills via drones.
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Grey Havoc said:
How much of that is real and how much is wishful thinking is the question, though.
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I think it's fairly decent information based on the same figures than indicated an overall wartime ratio of 1:2.5 in January. So the ratio has increased based on the same data.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2044344892415959438
View: https://x.com/NOELreports/status/2044344892415959438?s=20

https://twitter.com/x/status/2044356430967308778
View: https://x.com/NOELreports/status/2044356430967308778?s=20
 
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I'll admit I'm rather doubtful of such ratios. There are more than enough examples in every war of "optimistic" kill counts.

If 95% of recent causalities are from drones, I have to assume there is almost no ground being gained or lost at this point. What is artillery and the big-ticket items doing? Waiting for the possibility that the Russians mass forces to try for major push?
 
Colonial-Marine said:
I'll admit I'm rather doubtful of such ratios. There are more than enough examples in every war of "optimistic" kill counts.

If 95% of recent causalities are from drones, I have to assume there is almost no ground being gained or lost at this point. What is artillery and the big-ticket items doing? Waiting for the possibility that the Russians mass forces to try for major push?
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ukranian SPGs have been getting hit quite hard with the active use of drones. everything has been getting hit hard. for example:
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Ive noticed that ukraine has wayyyy more armoured cars and MRAP losses but russia ahs significantly more IFV losses so i assume the russians use IFVs while the ukranians make use of armoured civilians cars as well as MRAPs that can be easily resupplied by its friends.



obviously these stats do not paint the true picture but they're generally visually identified losses so they show a trend.
Take them with a grain of salt though since they might not be fully accurate caused i poached it off a pro russian subreddit and it may have bias although the 2 sources used are relatively good for their ability to paint a true picture.
 
I doubt anyone outside the war has a remotely good idea of what the casualties or exchange rates are. Honestly sometimes I wonder if the actual participants are keeping particularly good track of such numbers. I would discount most any publicly released number as self serving for whoever released it.
 
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The graphs above.
Or if you want there’s LostArmour, Bealthass on X, or any other telegram channel.
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Where are the graphs from though, what figures are they based on? These figures don't support those graphs.
https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-documenting-equipment.htmlhttps://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-documenting-ukrainian.html
There's significant disparity in Russian SPG losses for April for instance, visually verified Russian SPG losses were twice as high as claimed by your Excel graphs.

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CH-47 Chinook Air-Launching Swarms Of Drones Touted As Future Feature​

https://www.twz.com/air/ch-47-chinook-air-launching-swarms-of-drones-touted-as-future-feature

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Forest Green said:
Where are the graphs from though, what figures are they based on?
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It’s a graph made by u/HeyHeyHayden and u/mogud_sus_reloaded on r/UkraineRussiaReport using the data from (for Ukrainian losses) and UkraineWarSpotting (for Russian losses).

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/1qsxaze/ru_pov_military_vehicle_loss_statistics_for_2025
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1. It's been ages since we've known that drones for both sides are of Chinese origins, mainly FPVs. This is old news.

2. Russia import-substituted everything but FPV drones, because they used Chinese drones since ever, so they substituted absolutely nothing in the FPV aspect. Moreover there's a very good probability that most of the production, like Geran, is localized.
 
 
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Ukrainian "Bulyava," the new strike-reconnaissance drone from DeViRo, which is already destroying Russian targets on the front lines. A loitering munition with a range of 50+ km, resistant to electronic warfare, operates in tandem with reconnaissance drones and, with just a few clicks, is guided onto enemy equipment, air defenses, and electronic warfare systems. Sharp and explosive.
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https://twitter.com/x/status/2046808967108550961
View: https://x.com/NaSutkiOdessa/status/2046808967108550961?s=20

https://twitter.com/x/status/2046750330528911606
View: https://x.com/GrandpaRoy2/status/2046750330528911606?s=20
 
Ukraine Pushes Defense Export Agenda

Ukraine is looking to capitalize on the success it has had developing counter-drone and other systems by adjusting government rules to enable defense exports.

Sales of such equipment were proscribed given the country’s own needs to defend itself against Russian aggression. But Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is looking to change that given the scale of defense industrial production.

“The export of Ukrainian weapons will become a reality—we have approved all the details at the level of our state institutions,” Zelenskyy said April 28.

The defense export push in part is aimed at diversifying the Ukrainian economy, which is heavily dependent on agricultural exports.

“Ukrainian companies will receive a real opportunity to enter partner countries’ markets, provided that our military has the right to receive the necessary volume of weapons first,” Zelenskyy said.
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https://militarnyi.com/en/news/russia-unveils-geran-5-analog-peklo-drone/

Russia unveils Geran-5

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Got a real V-1 feel to it thanks to the gas catapult.
Weird they`d choose that type of launch option,unless it was just for initial testing purposes?.
 
A real V-1 feeling, indeed ! Actually, I like it, V-1 catapult is a "father" of all carrier steam catapults...
Some rails are allegedly very long....Does anybody have more on it, technology wise?
 
Drones now firing A2G rockets.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2055960837110591932
View: https://x.com/NOELreports/status/2055960837110591932?s=20
https://twitter.com/x/status/2055996123634946165
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Russian sources claim Ukraine has begun using updated tactical FPV drones with combat AI, citing signs of auto-guidance on facial contours and a matching thermal trace loaded into the UAV’s onboard memory.
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View: https://x.com/NOELreports/status/2056316815832170717?s=20
 
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U.S. Air Force Orders One-Way Attack Drones From Aevex

DETROIT—The U.S. Air Force has ordered an $18.5 million batch of Group 3-sized one-way attack drones and support services from Aevex, according to the U.S. company, which has supplied thousands of similar systems to Ukraine.

The May 13 announcement during the Xponential convention here in Detroit does not specify which drones have been ordered or how the Air Force plans on using them.
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