Operation Cobweb

Kremlin mum as Ukrainian drones reduce Russian strategic bombers to smoking wrecks

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has remained silent for more than 24 hours following a large-scale drone operation by Ukraine’s SBU Security Service targeting Russian airbases, The Moscow Times reported on June 2.

2 June 2025, 03:24 PM

Western media call Ukraine’s drone strike brilliant and game-changing

Western media outlets are heaping praise on Ukraine’s audacious Operation Spider Web, calling it a strategic and symbolic breakthrough that could rewrite the rules of modern warfare following a devastating drone strike on Russian strategic aviation bases.

2 June 2025, 02:57 PM

One-third of Russia now within Ukrainian drone range after airfield attacks

Following the June 1 attack on Russian airfields, the potential strike zone for unmanned aerial vehicles has expanded to 6.2 million square kilometers, the Russian media outlet Verstka reported and published infographics showing the changes.

2 June 2025, 02:55 PM

Czech foreign minister praises Ukraine's strikes on Russian strategic aviation

Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky commented on the Ukrainian attack against Russian airfields housing strategic aviation on June 1 in a post on X.

2 June 2025, 02:12 PM

'Cobweb' operation wipes out third of Russia’s nuclear bombers

Forty-one nuclear-capable strategic Tu-95, Tu-22M3, and Tu-160 bombers, as well as A-50 "Mainstay" airborne early warning and control (AWACS) aircraft stationed at four separate military bases across Russia were destroyed or damaged in the June 2 special operation “Cobweb,” Ukraine’s Security Service’s (SBU) head Vasyl Malyuk reported on Telegram the following day.

2 June 2025, 02:03 PM

Ukraine’s Cobweb drone blitz exposes blind spots in airbase defenses worldwide

The Security Service of Ukraine’s (SBU) attack on Russia’s strategic aviation demonstrated that most airbases around the world — including in the United States — remain vulnerable, The War Zone wrote on June 1.

2 June 2025, 01:31 PM

Massive traffic jams hit Irkutsk after drone attack on Russian airfields

Russian security forces launched widespread truck inspections in Irkutsk Oblast following a drone attack on military airfields housing strategic aviation, leading to massive traffic jams, local Telegram channels reported on June 2.

2 June 2025, 01:24 PM

Ukraine’s Cobweb op shakes Putin’s war plans and tests Trump’s political silence

Operation Cobweb, in which Ukrainian drones struck airfields on Russian territory, has put both Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump in a difficult position, according to The Telegraph, which published an analysis of the unprecedented June 1 drone attack on Russian airbases that damaged Russia’s strategic aviation fleet.

2 June 2025, 12:40 PM

New video shows Russian bomber ablaze in Siberia

A new video of a burning aircraft reportedly filmed shortly after the June 1 drone attack on the Belaya military airfield in Russia’s Irkutsk Oblast was posted by the Supernova+ Telegram channel the following day.

2 June 2025, 12:02 PM

Western diplomats, military leaders, and analysts react to Ukraine’s bold Cobweb op

Diplomats, military figures, and other experts have actively responded to Ukraine's bold Cobweb operation striking Russia’s strategic aviation assets with an estimated total value of $7 billion on June 1.

2 June 2025, 11:55 AM

How Ukraine’s Operation Cobweb stunned Russian propagandists and war bloggers — ISW

Despite threats from Russian propagandists to retaliate with nuclear weapons over Ukraine’s Operation Cobweb, a nuclear response is unlikely, analysts at the Institute for the Study of War said in a June 1 report.

2 June 2025, 10:27 AM

Ukraine’s audacious ‘Cobweb’ drone blitz cripples Putin’s nuclear bomber fleet

About 34% of Russia’s nuclear-capable strategic bombers stationed at four separate military bases across the country were targeted in an unprecedented operation “Cobweb” carried out by the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) on June 1.

2 June 2025, 09:12 AM

Operation Cobweb prepared for over a year, destroyed more than 40 Russian aircraft — NV sources

Operation Cobweb — a covert mission that enabled Ukraine’s SBU Security Service to strike 41 Russian strategic aircraft — had been in preparation for more than a year and a half, sources in Ukraine’s intelligence community told NV on June 1.

1 June 2025, 05:07 PM

Operation Cobweb

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