Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin said that in 2023, the Russian Armed Forces received approximately 140,000 drones of various types and that production is planned to increase tenfold this year. Source: Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the Russian Military-Industrial Commission on the development of unmanned aerial systems for special purposes,

Such an increase would see Russia leapfrog the United States and India in terms of the number of active combat soldiers it has at its disposal.

Kyiv's recent incursion into Russia's Kursk Oblast marked the first invasion into Russian territory since World War II. Ukrainian forces claimed control of over 100 settlements and captured nearly 600 Russian soldiers,