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It is difficult to exaggerate great arrogance – or ingenuity – which has attacked Ukraine across the country on the Russian Air Force.
We cannot check Ukrainian statements that the attacks have caused 7 billion dollars (5.2 billion pounds), but it is clear that the “spider’s” web “was at least a spectacular advocacy coup.
The Ukrainians are already comparing it to other well -known military success after the full -scale invasion of Russia, including the sinking of the flagship of the Russian Black Navy, Moscow and the Bridge Kerch, as in 2022, as well as in the missile attack on Harbor Sevastopol.
Judging by the details that are traced in the media of the military intelligence of Ukraine, the SBU, the last operation is the most difficult achievement so far.
The operation, presumably, took 18 months to prepare, dozens of small drones were smuggling in Russia, kept in special departments aboard trucks, gave at least four separate places, thousands from each other, and launched a distance to the nearby airbase.
“No reconnaissance operation in the world did anything like this,” said Sergi Cusan, Ukrainian television analyst.
“These strategic bombers are capable of starting a long range against us,” he said. “There are only 120 of them, and we have struck 40. This is an incredible figure.”
It is difficult to evaluate the damage, but the Ukrainian military blogger Alexandr Kovalenko says that even when the bombers and teams and driving aircraft were not destroyed, the impact is huge.
“The degree of damage is that the Russian military complex is unlikely to be able to restore them soon,” he wrote on his telegraph channel.
According to him, strategic bombers carrying missiles, TU-95, TU-22 and TU-160 are no longer in production. Their repair will be difficult, replacing them with impossible.
According to him, the loss of supersonic TU-160 will be especially acute.
“Today, Russian aerospace forces have lost not only two of their most rare planes, but really two unicorn in the herd,” he wrote.
In addition to physical damage that may be, and may not be as big as analysts, they estimate that the Internet operation sends another critical message not only to Russia but also in the Western allies of Ukraine.
My colleague Sviatoslav Khomenko, who writes on the BBC Ukrainian Service site, is reminiscent of a recent meeting with a government official in Kiev.
The official was disappointed.
“The biggest problem,” said the Svyatoslav official, is that the Americans have convinced themselves that we had already lost the war. And from this assumption everything else follows. “
The Ukrainian Defense Journalist Ilia Pannorenko, posing on X, puts it in another way, with a pointed reference to the infamous present of the Oval President Vladimir Zelensky with Donald Trump.
“This is what happens when the proud nation does not attack all those:” Ukraine is only six months old. ” You don’t have cards. ” Just surrender for peace, Russia can’t lose. “
Even more was a tweet from the quarterly business of Ukraine, which proudly announced: “It turns out that Ukraine is eventually.
Thus, this message is Ukrainian delegates when they come to Istanbul for a fresh round of negotiations to cease fire with the Kremlin: Ukraine is still in the fight.
The Americans “start acting as if their role is in the negotiations for us the mildest conditions of surrender,” said the government Svyatoslav Khomenko.
“And then they are offended if we do not thank them. But of course, we do not do it – because we don’t believe we were defeated.”
Despite the slow, relentless progress of Russia through the battlefields, Ukraine tells about Russia and Trump administration, so as not to release Kiev’s prospects so easy.
