Ukrainian drones on Russian bombers: Moscow Moscow, but also west – BBC News in Serbian

Ukraine said that on Sunday she performed the greatest attack on the war with Russia, using a multifube unmanned aircraft in a series of large shocks on 40 Russian warplanes in four military bases.

President Vladimir Greenski said that 117 drones were used in the SBU security service SBU, in which « 34 percent (Russian) strategic cruise rackets ».

It took a year and a half for organizing the attacks by drones hidden in wooden mobile cabins, which was remotely driven from the air bases, and then fired in the right time, « previously sources from SBU for BBC.

Russia confirmed Ukrainian attacks in five regions by calling them « terrorist. »

The Ukrainian authorities later announced that the territory of the country was performed by a large attack by drones and rockets during the night, Nesho more than 24 hours before Moscow and Kiev meeting, in Istanbul, in the second round of peace negotiations on Monday.

Expectations from meetings are small, since two warring parties are still far around the agreement to end the war, which has started invasion in Ukraine in February 2022.

Moscow is currently controlled by about 20 percent of Ukrainian territory, including the Crimean Peninsula annexed 2014. years.

Green congratulated the boss of SBU Vasila Maliuka on the « absolutely brilliant result » of surgery.

Each of the 117 launched drones had its own pilot, he wrote green on social networks.

« It’s most interesting – and now we can speak publicly – that the ‘office’ of our operations in the Russian territory was located next to the FSB (a powerful Russian service of state security) in one of the regions, » Zelenski said.

Greenski also said that everyone engaged in the operation was safely « taken » from Russia before the attack, claims green.

The SBU estimates that it has been damaged by Russian strategic aviation of about seven billion, promising more detail soon.

Ukrainian claims are not independently proven.

The Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed that the air base in five regions were attacked.

« All attacks » on military air base in the areas of Ivanovo, Ryazan and Amur were rejected, claimed by the Ministry in the post published on social networks later on Sunday.

SBU sources did not mention the AMUR base.

In the Murmansk and Irkutsk regions, several aircraft set fire « After the drones were launched from nearby areas, the Ministry said.

All fires were extinguished and there are no injured, and some of the suspects for « terrorist attacks were detained, » the ministry claims.

The Ukrainian authorities later announced that in the wave of attacks on the country, the Russian army used 472 drons and seven ballistic and cruise missiles.

If these data are correct, it is one of the largest individual attacks of Russian drones so far. Ukraine says « neutralized » 385 goals in the air.

It was previously announced that 12 Ukrainian soldiers were killed, and more than 60 were injured in Russian rocket attack at the training center.

The head of Ukrainian land forces, Major General Michail Drapati, soon resigned.

The decision « dictated my personal feeling of responsibility for the tragedy, » Drapati said.

The bold Ukrainian drone attack sends a key message to Russia, but also the west

It is difficult to exaggerate pure courage – or ingenious – which devised and performed the attack of Ukraine to the Russian air force across the country.

In no way, we can confirm Ukrainian claims that attacks have harmed seven billion dollars, but it is clear that « spider network operation » was, at the very least, spectacular propaganda stroke.

Ukrainians are already comparing with other significant military successes from the beginning of Russian invasion, including the command ship of the Russian Black Sea fleet « Moscow » and the bombing of Kerčko Bridge, both from 2022, as well as a rocket attack on the port of Sevastopol next year.

Judging by the details that have been unofficially arrived from the Ukrainian Military Intelligence Service SBU, the latest operation is the most complex achievement so far.

In the surgery, which is allegedly prepared for 18 months, is smuggled in Russia, stored in special sections in freight trucks, taken to at least four different destinations away thousands of miles, and remotely run towards nearby air bases.

« No intelligence in the world has done anything like that so far, » said Serhij Kuzan, military analyst, for Ukrainian TV.

Russian strategic bombers are used for « strikes long reach, » analyst explains.

« There are only 120, and we hit 40. It’s an amazing figure, » he claims.

It is difficult to assess the damage, but Ukrainian military blogger Oleksandr Kovalenko says that even bombers and command-control aircraft are not destroyed, the impact is huge.

« The scope of damage is so much that the Russian military-industrial complex, in the present state, will be able to rebuild them in the near future, » he wrote on the personal telegram of the channel.

It is a strategic rocket bombs TU-95, TU-22 and TU-160, which are no longer produced, writes Kovalenko.

It will be difficult to fix them, and replace them – impossible.

The loss of the Tu-160 supersonel, would be a big stroke, he believes.

« Today, Russian air forces lost not only two rarest defensive aircraft, but really two unicorns in the drift, » said Kovalenko.

In addition to material damage, which may, but it does not have to be as large as the here’s analysts estimate, the spider’s spider network sends another critical message, not only Russia but also Western Allies of Ukraine.

My colleague Svyatoslav Homenko from the BBC Ukrainian service, recalls a recent meeting with one government official in Kiev.

The official was frustrated.

« The biggest problem is that Americans are convinced that we have already lost war. All the rest of that assumption follows ». « He said Svyatoslav.

Ukrainian military analyst Ilija Ponomarenko on the social network ICC emphasizes the notorious meeting of President Vladimir Green with Donald Tramp in Washington.

« Here’s what happens when the proud nation on hit doesn’t listen to all those: ‘Ukraine only remained six months’.’ Just surrender for peace, Russia cannot lose.

An even more striking is a business of business Ukraine, who proudly announced that « turn out that Ukraine still has some cards ».

« Today, the Green played King Dron, » he writes in the post online IX.

This is, therefore, a message that Ukrainian officials wear in Istanbul to a new round of fire cuts with Kremlin representatives: Ukraine is still in combat.

The Americans « start behaving as if their role is to negotiate the most eligible delivery conditions for us, » said the government official Svyatoslav Homenku.

« And then they’re offending when we don’t thank them. But of course we won’t – because we don’t believe we’re defeated. »

Despite the dispute and relentless progress of Russia through the battalion fields in Donbas, Ukraine says Russia and Tramp administration not to reject so easily the chances of Kiev.

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