Ukraine’s drone strike on Russia’s air bases below ‘investigation,’ Kremlin says in first response to Operation Spiderweb

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been knowledgeable about Ukraine's current drone assault towards Russian air bases, and the "incident" is being investigated, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov mentioned on June 3, in keeping with the state-run information company TASS.

The operation, carried out by the Safety Service of Ukraine (SBU) on June 1, reportedly hit 41 bomber planes and different plane, inflicting what Kyiv claims is $7 billion in injury and disabling over a 3rd of Russia's strategic bomber fleet.

Peskov's feedback marked the primary response by the Kremlin to the assault. Regardless of the operation's scale, Putin has not commented on it publicly.

"The president acquired details about the incident on-line," Peskov mentioned.

"An investigation has been launched by the Investigative Committee. There was additionally a corresponding assertion from the Protection Ministry."

The Kremlin's muted response contrasts sharply with jubilant reactions in Ukraine, the place officers described the coordinated drone strikes as a serious success.

The SBU mentioned 117 drones, launched from hid vans positioned throughout Russian territory, concurrently struck airfields in a minimum of 4 areas — together with websites hundreds of kilometers from the Ukrainian border.

The focused air bases reportedly housed Tu-95 and Tu-22M3 bombers, key carriers of long-range cruise missiles utilized in Moscow's air strikes on Ukrainian cities.

The operation reportedly took 18 months of planning and was timed simply days after Russia launched a wave of mass aerial assaults on Ukraine, together with the record-setting assault on June 2 that killed and injured civilians.

Whereas the Kremlin stays restrained, some Russian pro-war commentators and propagandists have responded with fury.

Some downplayed the assault's scale, whereas others known as for nuclear retaliation or strikes on NATO airfields in response to what they described as Western complicity.

No NATO member state has confirmed involvement in Operation Spiderweb.

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