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An operation by Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) has hit "more than 40" Russian bombers at air bases "in the rear of the Russian Federation," a source in the agency told the Kyiv Independent on June 1.

"Enemy strategic bombers are burning en masse in Russia — this is the result of a special operation by the SBU," the source said.

Video provided by the source shows what appears to be a row of heavy bomber aircraft on fire at an undisclosed location.

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[–] PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 62 points 6 days ago (13 children)

It's not only what they did, but how they did it.

First of all the loss of this aircraft is substantial. They don't have many more of these aircraft and likely not all are operational at every time, especially now when it's hard to get parts. And these planes are full of western parts.

And another thing, is not like Russia can throw everything at Ukraine, it's got other borders to watch.

The second part is how they did it. They snuck into Russia with weapons and carried an embarrassing blow against a country that is basically fighting this war to keep its status as a super power. And this country that they don't even consider as a country did this to them from the inside. Thats just weak and it's there for everyone to see. This is shouting for everyone to hear: Russia is no super power, it's no power at all.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Just to put it in perspective, Wikipedia is currently listing the "before being destroyed" numbers, along with a note of "obsolete source".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_Russian_military_aircraft

Before this attack, their bomber force was:

  • Tu-22M: 56
  • Tu-95: 47
  • Tu-160: 22

It's apparently the first two that got hit most. 40 total gone is a significant chunk of their whole bomber force, and they ain't going to be able to replace them.

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[–] puddinghelmet@feddit.nl 42 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (22 children)

Bro I love Ukrainians so much and the respect for you HEROES is astonishing, SKY HIGH LOVE YOU GUYS KEEP IT UP !!!

The SBU claims that 34 per cent (‼️‼️) of Russia's fleet of bombers, with a combined value of more than €6 billion, has been eliminated with this operation 'Spiderweb'. The figures cannot be independently confirmed because Russia and Ukraine are both silent on military losses for strategic reasons.

May the spiders crawl all over putin and eat him alive.

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[–] perestroika@slrpnk.net 67 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Clever and economical, and 100% high value military targets. I wish the guys who pulled this off, all the luck they can have. :)

It is possible that Russia's selection of AWACS planes (about 10 left) decreased even more.

The "sheds" were more like wooden boxes. They had a fake roof, the upper layer of which a mechanism could remove. Between the roof beams - "nests" for drones. This cargo was given for transport to ordinary truck companies. There's even a video where cops have detained a trucker while drones are taking off from his truck and heading towards Belaya airfield, ordinarily unreachable to Ukrainian drones since it's 4000 km away. I'm afraid the trucker will be facing some hard times. I hope they understand he was deceived, though, and eventually let him go.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 30 points 6 days ago

Yeah, about that trucker, he's fucked. It's not his fault but he's definitely collateral damage here as Russia typically doesn't take kindly on messengers with bad news, let alone an innocent trucker who accidentally towed in the apocalypse.

[–] Neuromorph@lemm.ee 51 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Im hearing bridges and submarines also. They did this perfectly. By not talking to a known Russian asset in the whitehouse.

[–] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Zelenskyy when Trump calls:

[–] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 32 points 6 days ago

Some of the best news I’ve heard in quite some time!

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago (2 children)

This is going to have the secondary effect of exploding rats but times a thousand.

During WWII the brits planted dead rats filled with explosives around german facilities, as it was common practice to simply throw dead rats into the boiler fireboxes, where these rats in questions would explode and hopefully deal damage to important equipment. Almost no real damage was done but simply finding the rats was enough to make the Germans so paranoid that the extra caution and paranoia did more damage than the rats ever would have if they had gone undiscovered (and thrown into boilers as planned)

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

With the 9/11 reference above, it had a similar effect on airport security. The TSA has been making traveling hell ever since and I'm not sure if they've actually stopped any real threats (cursory search says nope).

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[–] puddinghelmet@feddit.nl 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I love this, may putin and russians go insane from paranoia hehehe :3

[–] Naevermix@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If this is true, if Ukraine really has dealt as much damage to the Russian bomber fleet as they claim they have, then this is tremendous.

[–] whyalone@lemm.ee 14 points 6 days ago

They filmed everything, you can see for yourself

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemm.ee 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)
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[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 11 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Too bad this attack probably cannot done another time. And another and another.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

If it's true this was 34% of Russian bombers, they could hopefully do two more.

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

If there’s one thing I’ve learned about Ukraine over the past few years it’s that they are incredibly resourceful. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if they have other novel attacks in various stages of planning. Of course they now have to wait and see how Russia changes their defenses as a result of this attack…

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