Ukraine Cripples Russia's Strategic Bomber Fleet

Ukraine's biggest military operation of the war so far, with 40 aircraft known to have been hit, including the A-50, Tu-95 and Tu-22 M3, a loss of planes worth in the billions.

I'm not sure what is more impressive, the destruction or the meticulous planning that went into the strikes on multiple airfields across Russia. Ukraine stated that the attack, codenamed "Spiderweb," had been planned for the past 18 months.

Source: Kyiv Post

An operation by Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) using first-person-view (FPV) drones smuggled deep inside Russian and hidden inside trucks has hit 41 Russian heavy bombers at four airfields across the country, a source in the agency told the Kyiv Independent on June 1.

The operation — codenamed "Spider web" and a year-and-a-half in the planning — appears to have dealt a major blow to the aircraft Moscow uses to launch long-range missile attacks on Ukraine's cities.

"The SBU first transported FPV drones to Russia, and later, on the territory of the Russian Federation, the drones were hidden under the roofs of mobile wooden cabins, already placed on trucks," the source said.

"At the right moment, the roofs of the cabins were opened remotely, and the drones flew to hit Russian bombers."

The source said one of the airfields hit was the Belaya air base in Russia's Irkutsk Oblast, more than 4,000 kilometers from Ukraine.

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