Ukrainian Defense Intelligence Drones Destroy Russian Trucks at Crimea Crossing

Drone operators from the Active Operations Department of the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) destroyed trucks at the entrance to temporarily occupied Crimea. These vehicles support Russian military logistics on the peninsula and along the southern front.

The Active Operations Department of the DIU released footage on social media showing a series of recent strikes.

The targets included trucks hit at a pontoon crossing near Chonhar, which Russian forces established after repeated strikes by Ukraine’s Defense Forces on bridges linking the peninsula to the mainland.

The footage indicates that the strikes have mainly targeted Russian military trucks and fuel tankers. In some cases, Russian forces repainted the vehicles to make them appear civilian and avoid detection.

The Defense Intelligence of Ukraine reported that operations aimed at disrupting Russian logistics are ongoing in the Zaporizhzhia sector.

“The invaders still seem to think that their logistics routes through the so-called land corridor to temporarily occupied Crimea are safe. The Active Operations Department’s drones have a different view. The footage shows another series of Russian supply missions that were cut short,” the department noted.

Last month, operators from the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine also participated in efforts to disrupt Russian military logistics along the so-called land corridor connecting the occupied territories of Donetsk and Crimea.

At the time, the agency reported that key highway sections running through the occupied cities of Berdiansk, Melitopol, and Dzhankoi were under the effective fire control of Ukrainian military intelligence drone operators.

To strike Russian vehicles and equipment deep behind the front line, Ukrainian forces have used domestically developed attack drones, including the RAM drone.

The drone strikes have targeted Russian military trucks carrying troops, ammunition, and supplies, as well as fuel tankers and mobile air-defense/fire-support teams deployed by Russian forces in an attempt to counter Ukrainian UAV operations.

Ukrainian aviation also targeted a bridge over the Karachokrak River in the temporarily occupied town of Vasylivka, in the Zaporizhzhia region.

The crossing has been critically damaged. The bridge is located on one of the key logistical routes used by Russian forces operating in southern Ukraine.