Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementThe plan is to lean into that further for air defense, he said. In August, the general said Ukraine had used helicopters to shoot down more than 3,200 Russian Shahed-type drones in the past year. Ukraine's military has shared multiple videos over the last few months that show its helicopters hitting Russian drones. Ukraine says that it has downed a host of Russian helicopters using a range of weapons, including missiles launched from naval drones and cheap aerial drones. Ukraine has repeatedly suffered from shortages of air defenses and interceptors, preventing it from wasting expensive missiles on inexpensive attack drones.