The boldness or ingenuity of Ukraine’s nationwide attack on Russia’s air force is difficult to overstate. Operation Spider’s Web” was undoubtedly a great propaganda coup, but we are unable to confirm Ukrainian claims that the assaults caused damage of $7 billion (£5.2 billion).
Ukrainians are already drawing comparisons to other significant military victories since Russia’s full-scale invasion, such as the 2022 bombing of the Kerch Bridge and the sinking of the Moskva, the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet, as well as a missile attack on Sevastopol harbour the following year.
According to information released to the media by Ukraine’s military intelligence agency, the SBU, the most recent operation is the most complex to yet.
Numerous tiny drones were smuggled into Russia, concealed in secret compartments on goods trucks, driven to at least four different places, thousands of miles apart, and remotely fired targeting adjacent airbases in an operation that reportedly took 18 months to arrange.
Serhii Kuzan, a defence specialist, told Ukrainian TV that no intelligence operation in history had ever done something like. These tactical planes have the ability of launching long-range strikes against us,” he stated. “We hit 40 of the 120 that are there. That is a fantastic number.
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