Ukraine’s Spiderweb; offensive initiative or gateway to Russian inferno
By Mehdi Ebrahim
Staff writer
The bloodcurdling roar of Ukrainian suicide drones whizzing over the Russian territory on June 1 ushered in a gobsmacking watershed in the protracted conflict between the two sides, reflecting both Kiev’s evolving military effectiveness and Moscow’s sapping warfare acumen.
Code-named Operation Spiderweb, the Ukrainian drone attack laid to waste more than 40 Russian planes deep in the vast country’s territory just hours before a new round of their direct peace talks in the Turkish city of Istanbul, with Ukraine’s Security Service saying the far-reaching offensive took more than a year and a half to execute and was personally supervised by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Zelenskyy said 117 drones had been used in the offensive, claiming that the operation had been headquartered out of an office next to the Russian Federal Security Service.
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