“Russia finally understood the true meaning of the word demilitarization.” In a reaction to the Political Journal, a Ukraine Security Service (SBU) resorted to Vladimir Putin’s goals for the country’s large -scale invasion to comment on Sunday’s Ukrainian attacks that destroyed dozens of aircraft at various parts of the Russian territory. Operation Web of the Spider, as they called the secret services of Kiev, It was one of the most successful since the beginning of the war. “It was brilliant,” greeted Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian President.
In the military channels of Russians, reacted with a mix of grocery e dissatisfaction. The day was really nicknamed Pearl Harbor, In reference to the Japanese attacks on the American fleet in the Pacific during World War II. The sophisticated Russian secrets failed predict the Ukrainian military operation. Officially, Russia described the successful as a “Terrorist attack”, ensuring that it had been repelled and that the perpetrators had been detained. Moscow granted, yet, that some aircraft have caught fire.
Ukraine claimed that 34% of Russian strategic bombers – will be more than 40 – were destroyed following the attacks with dronesand the losses are located in the order of seven billion dollars (about 6.1 billion euros). These numbers represent, however, only the Ukrainian version, with no confirmation from Russia. Regardless of the data, the attack was a important success Strategic for kyiv.
What Ukraine managed to do with operation “pavutyna” (“the web”, interesting name!) is a paradigm shift, not only because of the result (40 strategic aircraft damaged) but for the method.
It took ~18 months to plan and the footage of embedded drones on trucks is surreal pic.twitter.com/gV7B2HlKSO
— MechDesign.xyz (@MechDesignxyz) June 1, 2025
According to Volodymyr Zelensky, Sunday’s military operation was being planned for over 18 months. Even so, o timing could not have been more convenient: The attacks occurred a day before the Russian and Ukrainian delegations met in Istanbul for another round of peace negotiations. In business terms, this offensive may have helped strengthen the position of Ukraine diplomatically. And show that Kiev still has “letters” and several trushes ready to weaken Russia.
“Preparation took over a year and a half. Planning, organizing, all the details were perfectly executed. It can be said with confidence that it was an absolutely unique operation. ” On social networks, the president of Ukraine gave several details about the offensive Spider Web. “Russia has suffered significant losses – totally justified and deserved. ”
This “single operation” had as its nevral point an “office” in an unusual location: close to a regional headquarters of the Federal Security Service (FSB), one of the branches of Russian secret services, Volodymyr Zelensky revealed. “Not total, 117 drones were used in this operation ”, Said the president of Ukraine, indicating that the operational guardians were in “several Russian regions – in three different hours.” Contrary to what Moscow alleged, Kiev guarantees that people who helped prepare her “left Russian territory” and “They are saved.”
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
The Ukrainian plan was relatively simple for such positive results. Trucks without any identification were parked in rural areasbut at a calculated distance to reach the Russian air bases. Through a distance mechanism, the roof of the trucks opened and the dronesstored inside, launched against the targets.
There are doubts, however, about who led and parked the trucks. According to the Telegraph, some conductors didn’t even know the cargo they carried – And they panicked when they saw the drones to be released. One of them was even detained, according to the Russian media. It is certain that those air equipment entered clandestinely in Russian territory And it is not yet clear how they escaped to control the secrets of Russia.
According to Telegram channels and Russian media, cited by the publication of an insider investigation, Ukraine initially hid drones In a warehouse in the Russian province of Chelyabinsk, near the border with Kazakhstan – this would be the “office” that referred to Volodymyr Zelensky on social networks. Costing more than 350,000 rubles (about 3,800 euros) per month, the warehouse owners have already been detained and authorities are investigating the presence of explosives in that space.
Rus mil bloggers are now posting a geolocated warehouse in Chelyabinsk where such containers were possibly assembled. They provide an address and monthly rental cost. They think that the armored munitions were likely shipped via Kazakhstan for final assembly.… pic.twitter.com/xijswRe1CP
– Samuel BENDETT (@sambendett) June 1, 2025
Os drones were placed in large wooden boxes and then transported in the trucks; According to Telegraph, only two did not reach the destination and self-destructed. The air equipment that caused the explosions had the mechanism First Person View (First person view). It means that they could be remotely controlledin order to reach the targets they proposed. It is not known who controlled them from a distance; According to The Guardian, they have been handled from Ukrainian territory, which demonstrates the sophistication of the operation.
Os drones They can, according to the Ukrainian media, have been trained with artificial intelligence to reach the most critical part of the aircraft. By 2020, with the conflict located in eastern Ukraine, the Kiev authorities had already surprised the Russians with trucks: placed one near the Kerch bridge, which connects the Crimea Peninsula to Continental Russiawhich was detonated at a distance and destroyed part of the infrastructure.
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But the spider web military operation, which is being compared to the explosion of pagers In Lebanon in September 2024 orchestrated by the Israelites secret, it was more complex and attacked five Russian air bases practically at the same time, located at different points of the Russian territory:
- Air base Olenyain the province of Murmansk, near the Russian border with Finland (about 3,400 kilometers away from Ukrainian territory).
- Air base Severomorskin the province of Murmansk, near the Russian border with Finland (about 3,600 kilometers away from Ukrainian territory).
- Air base Ivanovo Severnyin the province of Ivanovo, near Moscow (about 1,110 kilometers of Ukrainian territory).
- Air base Dyagilevoin Ryazan province, near Moscow (about 775 kilometers of Ukrainian territory).
- Air base In troublein the province of Irkutsk, near the Russian border with Mongolia (about 5,300 kilometers of Ukrainian territory).
???? Because I’ve not seen it anywhere yet…
Here’s a map I made of the 4 Russian air bases that Ukraine hit with drone attacks just now (red stars)
Look how deeply they penetrate into Russian territory.
Slava ukraini. ✊ pic.twitter.com/Oo0dkeSrGi
— Mike Galsworthy (@mikegalsworthy) June 1, 2025
In the five air bases, Russia had a relatively advanced fleet. After the Ukraine War began and after some Kiev attacks to some air bases, Moscow transferred some of the aircraft to the interior of his territory. However, following this military operation, Nor were these saved.
The data is still provisional, But Ukraine ensures that it has destroyed a third of the strategic bombing fleetsome of which had already been used to attack Ukrainian territory. “These strategic bombers are able to launch long -distance attacks against us. There are only 120 and we have attentive 40. It’s an incredible number,” said the military analyst Serhii Kuzan, quoted by the BBC.
If Kiev guarantees that he destroyed more than 40 aircraftsome military analysts point to a significantly lower number. In any case, the destruction of the bombers is confirmed Tu-22m e Tu-95. This last aircraft is the oldest and is the height of the Soviet Union. Initially, it was created to transport nuclear bombs, but was adapted to launch cruise missiles.
