Ukraine's Safety Service has estimated the worth of the Russian strategic plane hit throughout its 1 June particular operation at US$7 billion.
Supply: Safety Service of Ukraine (SSU)
Quote: "US$7 billion. That’s the estimated worth of the strategic enemy plane property hit right this moment as a part of the SSU’s particular operation Pavutyna (Spiderweb).
We’ve struck 34% of Russia's strategic cruise missile carriers at their essential airbases."
Particulars: The SSU has promised to launch extra details about the operation "shortly".
Background:
- On the afternoon of 1 June, a sequence of strikes occurred focusing on Russia’s Aerospace Forces at no fewer than 4 airfields.
- Sources advised Ukrainska Pravda that the operation, which was carried out by the Safety Service of Ukraine (SSU), had hit round 40 plane, significantly strategic bombers.
- A supply within the SSU advised Ukrainska Pravda that the particular operation, codenamed Pavutyna (Spiderweb), had been in preparation for over 18 months. The plan concerned smuggling first-person view drones into Russia, adopted by cell picket crates wherein the drones had been hid.
- Russia's Defence Ministry has confirmed that navy airfields in 5 areas had been attacked by first-person view (FPV) drones. The ministry blamed the "Kyiv regime" for the strikes.
- Axios has reported that Ukraine didn’t inform the US upfront of its Safety Service operation that resulted within the destruction of dozens of Russian plane.
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