The Russian Aerospace Force has sharply increased the use of difficult-to-stop glide bombs against targets in Ukraine, with civilians on the ground paying the price in lives and destroyed homes and businesses, with no help in sight any time soon. Published Ukraine Air Force data from January through June 2026 reviewed by Kyiv Post showed that the number of munitions dropped by Russian pilots in combat in the skies over or near Ukraine is averaging 250 glide bombs – each capable of leveling an apartment block – a day.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. From January to June 2026, the number of glide bombs dropped by the Russian Aerospace Force has increased by about 45 percent, rising from a 5,1717 counted in the first month of the year to 8,266 observed in June, those statistics showed. On June 13, according to that data, Russian pilots flew 127 individual sorties dropping a total of 391 aerial bombs – a record for the entire war. Russian official and Ukrainian military sources say the most common glide bomb target is a Ukrainian forward defensive position Russian infantry is unable to assault because of fortifications and drone swarms. Both sides say the weapon isn’t always accurate and sometimes misses targets. Russia’s main glide bomb technology is a guidance kit called a UMPK (Russian: Унифицированный модуль планирования и коррекции, or Uniform Module of Planning and Correction) with folding stubby wings and a simple computer brain that is fitted to a legacy “dumb bomb” which is used as the warhead, very similar to the way the US uses Mk 82, 83, 84 general purpose bombs and BLU-109 penetrator bomb-body with external kits for its GBU family of guided weapons.