A Ukrainian drone took out two Russian tanks and a piece of artillery in a single night, Ukraine says

• One drone blew up $7 million of Russian military gear in a single night, a Ukrainian official said.
• The UAV is "making hell" for occupiers, said Ukraine's digital transformation minister.

Ukraine said it destroyed more than $7 million of Russian military equipment in a single night, using just one drone.

Ukraine's Minister of Digital Transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, shared an edited video of the drone's attacks in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Fedorov wrote: "Our secret UAV [unmanned aerial vehicle] from the Army of Drones is in charge of making hell for occupiers. Russians are very afraid of this bird, and they are right. One flight and two tanks and cannon — lost, costing $7 million."

"This is the result of the efforts of skilled fighters and the Ukrainian drone, which the occupiers fear greatly," Fedorov said in a separate post on Telegram, according to a translation provided by the Kyiv Post.

He added the attacks took place in a single night.

The video claims to show soldiers from Ukraine's 92nd Separate Assault Brigade using a drone, or drones, to target a Russian T-80 and T-72 tank, as well as a D-30 howitzer, and setting them ablaze one by one.

The footage shows both tanks and the piece of artillery being hit, but it doesn't specify what type of drone was used or where and when the attacks took place.

Fedorov said in another post that Ukrainian drone attacks took out "a record" 205 pieces of Russian military hardware last week, including 64 cannons, 27 tanks, and 55 trucks.

Ukraine has relied heavily on drones to target Russian tanks and other prized military assets.

One 12-man Ukrainian drone team claimed this month to have destroyed $80 million of Russian military equipment, according to a report by the Associated Press.

Ukrainian sea drones and missiles have also played a key role in striking Russian ships off the coast of occupied Crimea, where Russia's Black Sea Fleet is based.

Ukraine has trained more than 10,000 new drone pilots this year as part of its effort to build a cutting-edge "army of drones," Fedorov told the Associated Press.

Meanwhile, Russia is racing to ramp up its domestic production of drones, and has plans to build 6,000 by summer 2025, including new and deadlier variants of the Iranian-made Shahed-136 drones, according to documents leaked to The Washington Post.