Her security services Ukraine (SBU) confirmed Saturday night (1/6/25) that the large -scale attack on military airports on Russia caused damage to the Russian air force of $ 7 billion.
“Six billion US dollars: This is the estimated cost for the hostile strategic aviation, which was hit by the SBU’s special” Spider Web “operation,” Ukraine’s security services wrote on Telegram to attack Russia’s military airports.
They added that They hit 34% of aircraft carrying strategic cruise rockets. These statements are impossible to be controlled in an independent manner.
At the same time, a Ukrainian government official told Reuters that Ukraine did not alert the United States in advance for unmanned aircraft attacks on four Russian aircraft.
Ukraine conducted “Special Enterprise with unmanned aircraft against four military Russian airportsto Siberia, some of which are thousands of kilometers from the front, according to a source from the Ukrainian Security Services (SBU).
About 41 aircraft used to “bomb the Ukrainian cities” hit, the source said, citing mainly strategically TU-95 and TU-22 and A-50 radar strategically.
Situation in Irkutsk in the aftermath of the massive Ukrainian drone attacks.
2 more TU-160 planes were hit/destroyed there according to reports. pic.twitter.com/92XCkrKL9N
— Clash Report (@clashreport) June 1, 2025
The Russian Ministry of Defense has confirmed that “several aircraft caught fire” after attacking unmanned aircraft at airports from Murmank and Irkutsk regions in the Russian Arctic and eastern Siberia respectively.
The first of the two airports mentioned, Olneia, is almost 1,900 kilometers from Ukraine, and the second, Belagia, is about 4,300 kilometers from Ukraine.
Ukrainian intelligence services posted videos allegedly showing the base of the belaga, which distinguishes several flame aircraft, with black tobacco clouds formed over them.
Russia-Ukrain war .
Incredible…..The Ukrainian Foreign Intelligence Service (SBU) has executed a meticulously planned operation using FPV drones. The Ukrainian strikes inflicted heavy losses on the Russian Air Force, especially at Russian air bases such as:
• Belaya in … pic.twitter.com/mSKkbhrUI4– Dr.Zana Jamal (@Drzanajamal) June 1, 2025
This is said to be the first Ukrainian attack to be so far from the front.
Ukraine regularly sends unmanned aircraft to Russia in response to air attacks against its territory, but this time it seems to have used a completely different way.
The Russian ministry said the drones were launched by places that are “near the airports”.
Ukraine this time hidden drones in Russia and then hid them in wooden structures on the container roof, according to the Ukrainian source. Then their roofs were opened remotely to throw drones, according to the source.
A video broadcast by Russian media, whose authenticity has not been verified, show drones taking off from trucks.
The Ukrainian operation, code -named “Spider Web”, was preparing for more than one and a half years and President Volodimir Zelenski was supervised, according to the Ukrainian source.
Zelenski: We do everything to end this war Russia
“A completely brilliant result. A result achieved exclusively by Ukraine. One year, six months and nine days from the start of design to effective execution. Our longest -term business, ”Volodimir Zelenski wrote in a post about the business.
Head of the Security Service of Ukraine Vasyl Maliuk delivered a report regarding today’s operation. An absolutely brilliant result. A result achieved solely by Ukraine. One year, six months, and nine days from the start of planning to effective execution. Our most long-range… pic.twitter.com/oN41NFYyfw
– Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Volodymyr Zelenskyy (@zelenskyyua) June 1, 2025
‘It’s about Ukrainian actions that will undoubtedly stay in the history books. Ukraine defends itself and rightly – we do everything to make Russia feel the need to end this war. Russia started this war, Russia has to end it. Glory to Ukraine, ”Zelenski concludes in his post!
Speaking a little later in his night video speech, Zelenski noted that 117 unmanned aircraft were used to attack Russian bases. “Russia had very tangible losses and justified,” he said.
According to Zelenski, one of the places where the attack on Russia was prepared, was “Right next to the office ”of Russian security services (FSB).