During September 5, 27 sorties of Russian unmanned aerial vehicles were recorded in southern Ukraine on the western bank of the Dnieper, compared to an average of 50 sorties recorded daily in August.

“In recent years, Russian doctrine has given an increasingly prominent role to UAVs, in particular to identify targets for artillery strikes.. UAVs can be vulnerable to both kinetic effects - when they are directly shot down - and electronic interference, ”said British intelligence..

Analysts say that against the backdrop of combat losses, it is quite possible that Russia is trying to maintain a stockpile of UAVs, problems with which are exacerbated by a shortage of components due to international sanctions..

In particular, on August 21, the Ukrainian military reported downing three Russian tactical UAVs "

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It should be noted that according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine dated February 24, our army destroyed 876 UAVs of the enemy of the operational-tactical level, of which 9 were only in the last 24 hours.