Russia Launched Over 100,000 Drones and 2,400 Missiles at Ukraine in 2025
In 2025, Russia significantly intensified its air attacks against Ukraine, using a record number of drones, missiles, and guided aerial bombs.
The Gaze reports this, referring to UNITED24 donations platform on Telegram.
Over the course of the year Russia launched more than 100,000 drones, around 2,400 missiles of various types, and over 60,000 guided aerial bombs at Ukraine.
Air raid alerts were issued at least 19,033 times nationwide, with thousands of aerial targets detected each week.
The constant attacks caused new destruction and civilian casualties, systematically damaging residential buildings, energy facilities, and other critical infrastructure. Each day brought new devastation and losses among civilians, “turning people’s lives into a struggle for survival.”
Notably, in 2025 Russia changed its air strike tactics against Ukraine, abandoning scattered attacks across the entire country. Instead, the strikes became more selective, concentrating on specific regions subjected to massive and prolonged bombardment.
According to Ukrainian Armed Forces officer and political analyst Andrii Tkachuk, frontline areas were targeted first, followed by northern regions, including Chernihiv, Sumy, and Kharkiv oblasts. Currently, the epicenter of attacks has shifted to Odesa and western regions, while Kyiv remains a priority target.
The purpose of these strikes is not only to terrorize the civilian population but also to disrupt logistics routes, particularly connections between northern and southern Ukraine. A separate emphasis is placed on destroying energy and municipal infrastructure to destabilize cities and provoke social discontent caused by power and heating outages.
According to Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba, in 2025 Russia doubled its attacks on Ukraine’s port infrastructure.
Russian missiles and drones strike ports almost daily in an effort to complicate exports and undermine global food security, with the situation being particularly severe in Odesa region, where nearly 800 air raid alerts have been recorded since the beginning of the year.
As The Gaze reported earlier, on December 30, Russia Attacked Odesa region, damaging facilities in the ports of Pivdennyi and Chornomorsk as well as a civilian ship flying the Panamanian flag, which was in the port.
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