Mounted Ukraine Yesterday, one of her biggest attacks in the war with her neighbor, Russia, as she targeted a long -term Russian bombardment in nuclear capacity in Siberia Other military rules have caused great damage and material losses.
What happened yesterday in the “Spider Network” attack, which was described as the most fierce and assigned Russia about $ 7 billion in a few minutes and cheap weapons?
How did the attack occurred?
Ukraine has targeted light -range light -range Russian bombers that are able to carry nuclear warheads at a military base in Siberia, the first attack of its kind so far as the confrontation lines are more than 4,300 km.
Videos and photos that were not validated on social media showed Russian strategic bombers, which are intended to drop nuclear bombs on distant targets, burning at the Belia Air Force Base, north of Irkutsk, after dozens of Ukrainian marches swooping.
The Ukrainian security services said it had carried out a “large -scale special operation” targeting four military airports throughout Russia.
She added that about 41 Russian aircraft are used to “bomb Ukrainian cities”, referring, especially to strategic launchers of the Tu-95, Tu-22 and A-50 radar planes.
Ukraine regularly carried out attacks on aircraft on sites inside Russia during the 3 -year war between them, but this time it seems to have used a completely different working style.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said that the engines were launched from sites “in the direct surrounding area” of airports, that is, from inside Russian territory. She explained that the attack also targeted other airports in the regions of Ivanovo, Razan and Things, at the border with China in the far eastern Russia, but it was repelled.
What weapons used?
According to Ukrainian sources, Kiev has smuggled aircraft to Russia, where they were then hidden in wooden structures in the bishop of shipping containers that were opened remotely to launch the engines.
Videos, which were reported by Russian media, but were not validated, showed a truck.
The president affirmed Volodimir Zellinski One of the places where the attack was prepared in Russia is located next to the office of the “Russian Federal Security Agency (FBSB).
The Ukrainian operation of the symbolic name “Spider Network” was planned more than a year and a half ago, and was supervised by Zelinski, according to Ukrainian sources.
Zelinski confirmed that the attack was used by 117 deputies and a similar number of elements who were “removed from Russian territory in a timely manner.”
Why didn’t Moscow discover it?
Although the Russian army did not announce many details about the attack, its details and the damages resulting from it, Russian bloggers and analysts spoke about what they described as intelligence failure to their country.
Russian military bloggers denounced a “black airline” day in their country after losses that were exposed to several Russian airports, and the talk about the damage and destruction of about 40 aircraft, including strategic bombers of all of about 7 billion dollars.
And the Teljram channel “Ribar”, which is close to the Russian army, considered that “this, without exaggeration, is a very severe blow,” condemning the “dangerous mistakes” made by Russian intelligence.
On the opposite party, Zelinski, along the lines of other Ukrainian officials, praised the results and described it as “very wonderful” and “deserved to be mentioned in history books.”
What are the losses resulting?
The Ukrainian Security Agency announced on Sunday that the attack by the enlightening carpets caused damage to Russian military aviation estimated at seven billion dollars, and extended 34% of the Russian strategic bombers carrying Cruise missiles.
Today, Monday, Ukrainian National Defense and National Defense official said that Ukraine destroyed at least 13 aircraft during the attack on Russian air bases on Sunday, at a time when other Ukrainian sources confirmed that the number of planes that were destroyed or damaged is more than 40.
For its part, the Russian Ministry of Defense confessed to “the outbreak of fire on several planes after the launch of” Murmansk and Erickk and Erick, respectively in the Russian Arctic and East Siberia, but it did not provide additional details about the size and value of the losses.
What are the repercussions?
At a time when observers expect the Russian response be “harsh” and “unprecedented” to the great and sudden Ukrainian attack that targeted military airports far from the border between the two countries, Moscow is officially silent in talking about this response.
Some Russian political and media circles are similar to Sunday strikes and targeting Russian bombers in the strategic sense of the “American Harbor” incident, which was the reason for the United States to enter BWorld War II And hit it for Japan with nuclear bombs.
Some analysts saw that Sunday’s blow affects Russian nuclear doctrine That Moscow modified during the war, as it targeted strategic bombers, and this calls for a “nuclear response by Russia”, but Moscow has not yet officially disclosed its losses or expected response or what it intends to do.
However, the official silence did not prevent Moscow from continuing its almost daily air attacks on Ukrainian soil, and the Ukrainian Air Force said on Sunday that Russia fired 472 planes on the country within hours, which is the highest number of drones in a night attack during the war.
The Ukrainian Air Force said in a statement that Russia also fired seven missiles. She added that 382 drones were shot down or neutralized, in addition to three missiles.
The timing of the attack?
The great Ukrainian attack comes at a time when Washington is intensifying its efforts to find an end to the war between Moscow and Kiev, and in light of a Ukrainian military retreat on some fronts and Kiev’s attempts to mobilize Western support again to confront the Russian attack and restore the lands that Moscow controlled during the war.
It also came one day before the meeting of Russian and Ukrainian officials today, Monday, in Istanbul, Turkey, to hold the second round of direct peace talks since 2022.
Analysts believe that the timing of the strong and unprecedented Ukrainian attack comes to obtain a force position on the negotiating table in Istanbul because, as it is known that the strong or the victor is the one who usually imposes its conditions when weapons or delinquency of peace.
Since his return to the presidential chair last January, the US President has been calling for Donald Trump Russia and Ukraine are to bring peace, but they have not yet reached an agreement, and the White House has repeatedly warned that the United States would “withdraw” of efforts to end the war if the two sides are stubborn without reaching a peace agreement.
The first round of the talks on May 16 resulted in the largest prisoner exchange operation in the war, but it did not result in any peace gesture, or even a ceasefire, as the two parties were satisfied with determining their initial negotiating positions.