What Did Ukraine's '40-Day Campaign' Against Russia Deliver?
The agency said the campaign hit air bases, refineries and air defenses to weaken Russia’s war capacity, with frontline units killing nearly 5,000 troops.
- Ukraine's Security Service reported a 40-day campaign approved by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that struck more than 100 strategic military and industrial targets inside Russia and occupied territories.
- The coordinated campaign combined long-range strikes deep inside Russia with frontline operations, aiming to simultaneously erode Moscow's military production, logistics, fuel supplies, air defenses, and combat capabilities.
- Frontline units struck more than 21,000 items of military equipment and infrastructure, killing nearly 5,000 Russian troops, while destroying more than 11,000 enemy drones, including 176 Shahed attack drones.
- Attacks disabled Russian air defense assets including a Nebo-U radar and Tor-M2 systems, while destroying one Tu-95MS strategic bomber and damaging Su-35 fighter jets and L-39 trainer aircraft.
- Kyiv aims to reduce Russia's ability to sustain the war by degrading military and economic infrastructure, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has approved a new series of operations proposed by SBU chief.
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What did Ukraine's '40-day campaign' against Russia deliver?
In late June, President Volodymyr Zelensky tasked Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) with launching a "40-day influence operation" designed to compel Russia to "end the war." In the weeks following, Ukraine's mid- and long-range drones scored some headline-grabbing successes — the crippling of dozens of Russian tankers supplying occupied Crimea and, perhaps most notably, the destruction of several warehouses across the country belonging to online …
Destroy the Oil: Ukraine Has Found Putin’s Weak Spot and Just Keeps Lighting It on Fire with Drones and Missiles
On 25 June, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy announced the beginning of a 40-day pressure operation headed by Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU). The objective of the campaign is to hit enough facilities of the oil industry and other strategic targets that Russia would be forced to sit down at the table to negotiate a peace settlement. Ukraine Cruise Missile Ministry of Defense Photo Unfortunately for Ukrainians, the 40 days were up on 4 Au…
Even if Russia has not been brought to a truce by far, the 40-day campaign of Ukraine has achieved a major goal. Russia's strategic depth - assuming that its refineries, its budget and its annexed peninsula were safe behind the front line - is no longer valid, writes Kyiv Post.
Selenskyy's 40-day deadline has expired without Moscow leaving its war targets. Ukrainian attacks hit targets deep in Russia.
The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) announced on 4 August 2026 that it had hit more than 100 Russian strategic sites and 21,000 targets on the front in 40 days, as part of the operation ordered by the President...
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