The Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) has unveiled the core tactical strategy powering its highly effective long-range aerial campaign deep inside Russia. By deploying hundreds of specialized decoy drones alongside live combat munitions, Ukrainian intelligence is successfully blinding, exhausting, and physically dismantling Russia’s domestic air defense networks. The operational mechanics were detailed by a HUR Deep Strike commander with the callsign “Vector” during a report by CNN on Sunday, May 31.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. Tricking Russian radars with jet-powered illusions During the media briefing, journalists captured the field preparation and launch sequences of Ukraine’s long-range unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The footage exposed a highly calculated system where only a specific percentage of the launched fleet is fitted with heavy explosive payloads, while a parallel wave of specialized decoys is deployed simultaneously to oversaturate Russian radar systems. “These are decoys,” Vector explained during the broadcast. “We have sent hundreds of them. Some are empty, some carry a combat load. The combat payload is small, but it is enough to destroy air defense systems.” To further manipulate the Kremlin’s defensive reactions, the HUR has introduced advanced, jet-powered decoy drones into its strike packages. According to Ukrainian operators, these high-velocity assets are explicitly engineered to mirror the precise radar signatures of standard cruise or ballistic missiles.