The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) reported that the June 1 “Spider Web” drone operation caused approximately $7 billion in damages and disabled 34% of cruise missile bombers in key Russian airbases.

The agency confirmed that more details about the attack will be revealed later.

“And you thought Ukraine was easy? Ukraine is exceptional. Ukraine is unique. All the steamrollers of history have rolled over it. It has withstood every kind of trial. It is tempered by the highest degree. In today’s world, its value is beyond measure,” the SBU wrote, quoting Ukrainian poet Lina Kostenko.

They also vowed to continue to drive Russian forces out of Ukrainian territory.

  • N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Apparently, the Russians moved a lot of their best bombers far from the front when they realized they were exposed to strikes, so Ukraine hit them with some James Bond, 4D chess operation they’d been planning for a year and a half.

    Those bombers had been terrorizing Ukrainian cities, destroying defensive fortifications, and are a key part of the Russian nuclear threat.

    Whatever weapons and money everyone is sending Ukraine, double it.

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      Whatever weapons and money everyone is sending Ukraine, double it.

      Freaking truth.

      Side thought purely as a hypothetical from a civilian standpoint: I’m wondering if it’s too paranoid to consider figuring out how to smoothly use Monero for sending donations.

      I’m wondering if records of sending aid to Ukraine will be the newest excuse to get disappeared by goons in the US, the same way they’ve been crushing the Constitutional rights of anyone who prominently voices anti-zionist dissent.

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      Apparently the FOB for the Ukrainians was next door to a FSB post

      They shared the same Starbucks

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      Ukraine did this with $500 drones. No infantry. No tanks or fighter jets.

      Ukraine doesn’t have the numbers to continue this war, less they want to start drafting 18 year olds.

      As much as I want to send them more money and arms, I want a ceasefire and end. Ukraine has lost enough, and they deserve peace.

      I doubt Russia will agree to any peace talks though. And it’ll be tough to replicate Operation Spiderweb now that Russia knows how it was conducted.

      Such a tragic fucking state of affairs

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        Russia is so incompetent I’m sure Ukraine could execute something similar several times again.

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      Are we sure that these were the aircrafts shooting the bombs?

      Dont get me wrong, i hope they were and every Russian plane that goes up in flames is good, i just want to be really happy if there is some proof those were the actual planes that Ruzzia was using.

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        They’re heavy strategic bombers, like a full size commercial jet, they don’t have a lot of them and they could use more. So yes, these were definitively used to bomb Ukraine.