Cobweb op: Russian truck drivers didn’t know they were carrying attack drones — Zelenskyy

“They didn’t know anything. They were just doing their job,” Zelenskyy said.

He clarified that Ukraine’s SBU Security Service used only domestically produced weapons for the operation, which targeted airfields and damaged more than 40 of Russia’s strategic bombers.

“I really wanted to use only what we manufacture, and to make that line very clear,” Zelenskyy added.

Cobweb special operation — the details

On June 1, the SBU carried out a large-scale and unprecedented operation called Cobweb to destroy Russia’s strategic bombers. The next day, Ukraine’s SBU confirmed that 41 aircraft were damaged in simultaneous strikes on four military airfields deep inside Russia. Among the aircraft hit were A-50 airborne radar planes and Tu-95, Tu-22M3, and Tu-160 bombers.

Ukrainian drones targeted four airbases across Russia: Olenya in Murmansk Oblast, Belaya in Irkutsk Oblast, Dyagilevo in Ryazan Oblast, and Ivanovo in Ivanovo Oblast. The strike on the Belaya airbase marked the first Ukrainian attack on military targets in Siberia since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion.

Sources in Ukraine’s intelligence community told NV that the operation was extremely complex logistically. First, the SBU smuggled FPV drones into Russia, followed by mobile wooden cabins. The drones were hidden beneath the cabins’ roofs, which had been mounted on trucks. At the right moment, the roofs were remotely opened and the drones launched, flying out to strike Russian bombers.

The operation took a year and a half to prepare and was launched following a series of brutal Russian missile attacks on Ukrainian cities that killed civilians — and amid ongoing U.S. efforts to mediate so-called “peace negotiations” between Ukraine and Russia.