- KYIV — Ukraine's
"massive" strike on Russian strategic assets across the length and
breadth of the country was a meticulously planned operation that was over a
year in the making and reportedly involved the insertion of drones close to
their targets.
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- As per X user Maria Avdeeva, who describes herself as a
"security expert covering invasion from day one" and "countering
Russian disinformation since 2014", Ukraine had secretly delivered FPV
drones and wooden mobile cabins into Russia, with the drones were hidden under
the roofs of the cabins, which were later mounted on trucks.
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- "At the signal, the roofs opened remotely. Dozens of
drones launched directly from the trucks, striking strategic bomber aircraft.
And — Russia can’t produce these bombers anymore. The loss is massive. Nothing
like this has ever been done before," Avdeeva said in a post on X.
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- Earlier in the day, Ukraine's secret service, the SBU, in a
statement, said: "Enemy strategic bombers are burning en masse in
Russia."
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- Ukraine is conducting "a large-scale special operation
aimed at destroying enemy bomber aircraft", it said.
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- As per the BBC, SBU sources revealed that the operation,
named "Spider’s Web", took a year and a half to organise and was
personally overseen by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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- The sources said the SBU first smuggled the FPV drones into
Russia, followed later by mobile wooden cabins.
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- Once on Russian territory, the drones were hidden under the
roofs of these cabins, which had been placed onto trucks. At the time of the
attack, the roofs were remotely opened, allowing the drones to take off and hit
the nearby airbases, the BBC reported the sources as saying.
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