This is the third of a Kyiv Post series on Ukraine’s air bombardment campaign targeting Russian military logistics at middle ranges from the front lines, with the declared objective of damaging Russian army unit capacity to fight effectively by using unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) to attack Russian supply routes and logistics. The first article in the series, focusing on the aircraft used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in that ongoing strike campaign, is available here.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. The second article in the series, focusing on the tactics and targeting strategies aircraft used by the AFU in that ongoing strike campaign, is available here. Ukraine’s “middle-strike” campaign with swarms of wide-ranging robot aircraft has destroyed hundreds of Russian fuel trucks, paralyzed truck and rail shipments over a territory roughly the size of the US state of Arizona or the European country of Bulgaria and placed the jewel of sovereign Ukrainian regions occupied by the Kremlin – Crimea – under a near-total blockade. The operation, formally known as “Logistical Lockdown,” marked the first time since 2022 that either Ukraine or Russia deployed hundreds of mid-range drones daily to strike logistical hubs and patrol roads and concealment areas across much of occupied southern Ukraine. The aircraft have mostly avoided the densest Russian air defenses along front lines and around high-value targets like oil refineries and naval bases, instead hunting for Russian military convoys and fuel trucks of all types traveling to or from the Russia-occupied Black Sea peninsula of Crimea.