​Ukrainian Drones Destroy Rare russian Malva 2S43 Artillery System (Video) | Defense Express

The story is beginning to be covered more and more about how russian air defenses have collapsed and the process is snowballing at a strategic level, but something that has been missed in this coverage is how Ukraine first broke the back of russian artillery before it decimated russia’s air defenses.

This is an ongoing process and the proficiency with which Ukraine is hunting down russian artillery (evidenced by the daily counts of destroyed artillery systems Ukraine regularly posts) is the vital metal fist that smashed into the face of the russian offensive and allowed a shift in initiative to propagate towards russia’s backline as drones began to hunt for the air defense systems further back from the now obliterated artillery.