How many do they have left?

No I hadn’t noticed that! Thank you for pointing it out. This makes a whole lot more sense now

Doesn’t seem all that beneficial… I think drones can fly above 7km and in a straight line.

I seriously thought he already did this. I hate this timeline.

According to Wikipedia:

The base is home to the 31st Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment which has two squadrons of Sukhoi Su-30SM (NATO: Flanker-H) as of 2022. The 368th Assault Aviation Regiment, with Sukhoi Su-25’s (NATO: Frogfoot), also deployed to Millerovo as part of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

It remains to be seen what was actually on the ground at the time of this assault but let’s hope it was a lot of those.