HUR's Black Sea detachment is ending five years of anonymity to offer NATO a sea-drone network that, by its account, keeps choosing targets when the link drops.
By the Air Force's count Ukraine stopped a smaller share of the jets than of the other drones, and the Energy Ministry says the strikes left more than 500,000 people without electricity.
Russia's new Filin cruise missile pairs avionics from a Shahed-type drone supplier with a drone-class turbojet and US chips made as late as October 2025, and its claimed 800 km/h doubles the speed of Ukraine's multirotor interceptors.
The first Geran-5 kills show that Ukrainian interceptors can catch Russia's fastest attack drones. The next six months turn on factories, financing and a Patriot stopgap.
Russia's budget law called for a cut in military spending this year. Instead outlays rose 30 percent to a record 43.8 percent of federal spending, and two-thirds of that budget is now hidden.
HUR's Magura boats have stopped being only anti-ship weapons. Carrying FPV drones, they now put short-range strike aircraft over coastal targets that land-launched drones cannot reach.
Ukraine's UJ-26 Bober, or Beaver, is a long-range one-way attack drone associated with HUR strikes against Moscow, Crimea and Russian military infrastructure.
The larger, missile-armed evolution of Ukraine's Magura naval drone — a sea drone that carries AIM-9 Sidewinders and, in May 2025, became the first uncrewed vessel to shoot down crewed fighter jets, downing two Russian Su-30s in the Black Sea.
Ukraine's game-changing naval attack drone — a low-profile, satellite-controlled USV that has sunk multiple Russian warships and scored the first-ever uncrewed vessel air-to-air kill.
Ukrainian long-range drones set the St. Petersburg oil terminal ablaze and struck the corvette Boikiy at a Baltic Fleet base, hours before Putin's economic forum opened in the city.