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1 June 2025
Ukraine says it has completed its biggest long-range attack of the war with Russia on Sunday, after using smuggled drones to launch a series of major strikes on at least 40 Russian warplanes at four military bases.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said 117 drones were used in the so-called “Spider’s Web” operation by the SBU security service, striking “34% of [Russia’s] strategic cruise missile carriers”.
SBU sources told BBC News it took a year and a half to organise the strikes.
Russia confirmed Ukrainian attacks in five regions, calling them a “terrorist act”.
four Russian airbases – two of which are thousands of miles from Ukraine – were hit:
- Belaya in Irkutsk oblast (region), Siberia
- Olenya in Murmansk oblast, Russia’s extreme north-west
- Dyagilevo in central Ryazan oblast
- Ivanovo in central Ivanovo oblast
“The SBU first smuggled FPV drones into Russia, followed later by mobile wooden cabins. Once on Russian territory, the drones were hidden under the roofs of these cabins, which had been placed on cargo vehicles,” the sources said.
“At the right moment, the roofs were remotely opened, and the drones took off to strike the Russian bombers.”
The drones were not remotely operated by independently piloted by AI.