The Telegraph: An Unprecedented Moment In The War.
12- 2.06.2025, 10:41
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How the SBU conducted the operation "Spider's Web".
Today, June 1, the Security Service of Ukraine successfully conducted Operation Web, which included drone strikes on four airfields on Russian territory at once. A total of 41 Russian military aircraft were hit, and the total cost of damage is estimated at about $7 billion.
As The Telegraph writes, this is a carefully planned special operation that took a long time to prepare for. Moreover, the attack took place at a critical moment of the war, when it became clear that US President Donald Trump's peace plan was not working.
How the SBU managed to pull off Operation ""Web"
Ukrainian drones before the attack flew out of cargo containers of vans that were parked near airfields, the publication recalled. The journalists noted that the panels of the containers of which had been modified to remotely retract at the push of a button.
The drones had been smuggled into Russia for several weeks under the control of the SBU. The publication suggested that the original plans were likely changed because Russia had recently redeployed the bulk of its fleet of strategic bombers.
The publication does not rule out that the drivers of the trucks carrying the drones may not have known what they were transporting. Locals living near the Olenya airbase on the Kola Peninsula told social media that the driver of one such truck was running around in a panic when drones started flying out of the back of his truck. He later told police that he had been ordered to park the truck in a parking lot near Olenegorsk, where someone would meet him.
There are also reports that the drones that struck Russian aircraft were equipped with artificial intelligence technology, thanks to which they automatically recognized targets and aimed at them.
"Fat" targets were destroyed."
The publication stressed that the affected aircraft were of great importance to Russia. Among the targets are the Tu-95 strategic bomber, which is capable of carrying both nuclear and conventional warheads, as well as the Tu-160, which is the largest supersonic bomber.
Also among the destroyed aircraft, according to representatives of Ukrainian intelligence, were not only the Tu-95 and Tu-22M3 bombers, but also the A-50 Oplot, which is one of the few early warning and air traffic control aircraft remaining in the Russian arsenal. Its value is estimated at nearly $310 million.
An unprecedented moment in the war
The publication added that the special operation "Web" relied not on long-range drones, for which the Russians might have been prepared, but on small FPV drones with explosives. Russian "war correspondents" have already hastened to compare this attack to the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japanese forces in 1941.
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