US EditionUkraine Strikes Russian Air Bases, Destroying Over 40 Aircraft; Russia Responds with Record Drone and Missile Attack
- Ukraine launched a coordinated drone attack in 2025, destroying over 40 Russian aircraft across five airbases deep inside Russia.
- The operation, code-named "Spiderweb," involved extensive planning over more than a year and used FPV drones concealed inside mobile homes transported up to 2,800 miles.
- The operation disabled over one-third of Russia's strategic bomber aircraft, including expensive A-50 reconnaissance planes, marking a significant advancement in drone combat tactics despite Russian assumptions that these assets were secure.
- Ukrainian President Zelenskyy called the operation 'brilliant,' while experts noted it weakens Russia's non-nuclear bombers but will not significantly reduce its nuclear capabilities.
- The assault exposed vulnerabilities in Russia's strategic air defenses and may pressure Moscow's military decision-makers, though it likely will not alter Russia's overall war aims.
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Will Ukraine or Russia win the war?
After Ukraine’s attack on Russian air bases, some pundits are writing that Ukraine is winning the war. At least one American newspaper headlined the surprise attack as Russia’s “Pearl Harbor,” evidently forgetting the ultimate result. In any case, the actual ground war in Ukraine is increasingly favoring the Russians, who are slowly tightening the noose on Kyiv’s […] The post Will Ukraine or Russia win the war? appeared first on Asia Times.
Ukraine wipes out a third of Russia’s strategic bomber fleet worth 6B euros
The second Ukrainian attack on the Crimean bridge was not as successful, but what has news outlets and experts speaking since it happened is the surprise drone attack Kiev launched deep into Russian territory, wiping out over 40 bombers. The so-called “Operation Spiderweb,” which had been in planning for over a year and involved 117 drones, each with its own pilot, was carried out on Sunday. Source
The Future of War Is Happening Right Now in Ukraine
If what the Ukrainian security service has told the public is even half true, their long-range strikes against the Russian air force on June 1 were an operational success on a grand scale. The Ukrainians say that they damaged or destroyed roughly a third of Russia’s strategic cruise-missile carriers, striking targets at bases from the Arctic Circle in Murmansk all the way to the far end of the Eurasian steppe along the Mongolian border in Irkuts…
[Vienna - Kaneko Natsuki] Russia is in a state of panic following the large-scale drone attack carried out by the Ukrainian military on air force bases in Siberia and elsewhere on the 1st. According to publicly available information on the Internet, over 10 strategic bombers were destroyed. It will be difficult to procure replacement bombers, and this is likely to have an impact on missile attacks on Ukraine. Russia has reportedly suffered losse…
Will Russia's retaliation to Ukraine's strategic drone strikes...
Tonight will be fateful for the conflict's future. Ukraine carried out strategic drone strikes on Sunday against several bases all across Russia that are known to house elements of its nuclear triad. This came a day before the second round of the newly resumed Russian-Ukrainian talks in Istanbul and less than a week after Trump warned Putin that "bad things..REALLY BAD" might soon happen to Russia. It therefore can't be ruled out that he knew ab…
Russian strategic aviation aircraft have fired about 3,000 flat-track missiles since the start of the invasion of Ukraine. According to Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yuriy Ihnat, air defenses shot down about two-thirds of them, the website of the newspaper Ukrainska Pravda reported. Ihnat also confirmed information from the Ukrainian SBU that the Russians lost four dozen aircraft during the weekend drone strike on air bases.
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