The Kyiv Independent newspaper on the evening of June 1, local time, quoted a source from the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) as saying that in an operation, the agency used a first-person view (FPV) UAV secretly brought deep into the territory of the Russian Federation and hidden inside trucks to attack 41 Russian heavy bombers at four air bases across the country.
The operation – codenamed “Spider Web” – had been planned for more than a year and a half and dealt a heavy blow to Moscow’s ability to attack Ukrainian cities.
According to the SBU, the operation caused an estimated $7 billion in damage and disabled 34% of the cruise missile-carrying bombers at key air bases in the Russian Federation.
“First, the SBU transported the FPV UAVs into the Russian Federation, and then, on the territory of the Russian Federation, these UAVs were hidden under the roofs of mobile wooden cabins, which were already placed on trucks. At the appropriate moment, the roofs of these cabins were opened remotely, and the UAVs flew out to attack the bombers of the Russian Federation,” the source said.
The operation targeted several Russian air bases, including Belaya in Irkutsk, Olenya in Murmansk, Diaghilev in Ryazan and Ivanovo in Ivanovo Oblast.
“More than 40 aircraft have been hit, including A-50, Tu-95 and Tu-22 M3,” the source added.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has hailed the results of the UAV campaign, calling it an “absolutely brilliant feat.”
Ukrainian intelligence pledged to release more details soon and pledged to continue pushing Russian Federation forces out of Ukrainian territory.
“We will strike (the Russian Federation) at sea, in the air and on land. And if necessary, we will pull them out from under the ground,” the SBU said.
On the Russian side, RT reported that in a statement released on June 1, the country's Ministry of Defense said that military airports across the Russian Federation were attacked in a series of suicide UAV airstrikes.
According to information from the Russian Ministry of Defense, the targeted airports are located in the Murmansk region in northern Russia, the Ivanovo and Ryazan regions in central Russia, as well as the Irkutsk region in Siberia and the Amur region in the Far East.
All attacks used FPV UAVs, some of which were launched from areas close to airports.
The Russian Defense Ministry said some of the perpetrators of the attacks had been detained, but did not disclose the number or identities of those arrested.
The Russian military also asserted that the “Kiev regime” was ultimately responsible for the attacks, calling them “terrorist acts.”
Source: https://khoahocdoisong.vn/ukraine-pha-huy-34-may-bay-nem-bom-chien-luoc-cua-nga-post1545077.html
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