Attrition: Daily Drone Destruction

August 20, 2026: Ukrainian engineers, entrepreneurs, and hobbyist designers, developers, and model-aircraft builders started the drone revolution. As a result, Russian losses are about 3.5 times higher. Worse, the Russians lose about eight soldiers for each Ukrainian loss. Russia has lost 1.4 million soldiers killed, disabled, and missing. In the first few months of the war, Russia lost most of its modern armored vehicles and specialized equipment. As the war progressed, losses also included air defenses protecting vital targets throughout western Russia, such as petroleum storage and refining sites, as well as manufacturers producing essent…