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The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) reported that the June 1 “Spider Web” drone operation caused approximately $7 billion in damages and disabled 34% of cruise missile bombers in key Russian airbases.

The agency confirmed that more details about the attack will be revealed later.

“And you thought Ukraine was easy? Ukraine is exceptional. Ukraine is unique. All the steamrollers of history have rolled over it. It has withstood every kind of trial. It is tempered by the highest degree. In today’s world, its value is beyond measure,” the SBU wrote, quoting Ukrainian poet Lina Kostenko.

They also vowed to continue to drive Russian forces out of Ukrainian territory.

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[–] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 147 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Apparently, the Russians moved a lot of their best bombers far from the front when they realized they were exposed to strikes, so Ukraine hit them with some James Bond, 4D chess operation they’d been planning for a year and a half.

Those bombers had been terrorizing Ukrainian cities, destroying defensive fortifications, and are a key part of the Russian nuclear threat.

Whatever weapons and money everyone is sending Ukraine, double it.

[–] AnalogNotDigital@lemmy.wtf 41 points 3 days ago

If a Republican crippled a historic enemies military without a single soldier dying and did so using a fraction of the US military budget they would put him on Mt. Rushmore, but since Biden did it they, and the entire media apparatus, called him a bumbling fool and senile.

Just like how Reagan gets credit for 'ending the Cold War' when a ton of the legwork for that was put in place by Kennedy, Eisenhower, (yes Nixon too), and LBJ and Carter.

Biden has flaws, and I wish Biden really did more to help Ukraine in the beginning of the war, but him helping out and clearing so much equipment to them was a genuinely good thing that he did while in office.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Whatever weapons and money everyone is sending Ukraine, double it.

Freaking truth.

Side thought purely as a hypothetical from a civilian standpoint: I'm wondering if it's too paranoid to consider figuring out how to smoothly use Monero for sending donations.

I'm wondering if records of sending aid to Ukraine will be the newest excuse to get disappeared by goons in the US, the same way they've been crushing the Constitutional rights of anyone who prominently voices anti-zionist dissent.

[–] MrNesser@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Apparently the FOB for the Ukrainians was next door to a FSB post

They shared the same Starbucks

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

What is less conspicuous than sleeping right next to your enemy.

[–] NotJohnSmith@feddit.uk 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Starbucks still operate in Russia?

[–] MrNesser@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

It's a fake Starbucks like the fake McDonald's apparently

[–] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Ukraine did this with $500 drones. No infantry. No tanks or fighter jets.

Ukraine doesn't have the numbers to continue this war, less they want to start drafting 18 year olds.

As much as I want to send them more money and arms, I want a ceasefire and end. Ukraine has lost enough, and they deserve peace.

I doubt Russia will agree to any peace talks though. And it'll be tough to replicate Operation Spiderweb now that Russia knows how it was conducted.

Such a tragic fucking state of affairs

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 days ago

Russia is already sending children in their military and uses donkeys and stolen civilian vehicles for supply.

The fate of ukraine is in our hands, but its their decision what they will give to resist the orks.

You forget that russia is deeply corrupt. This type of operation can be done again.

Getting some inspiraton from hogans heros is good /j

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

i take hope from the fact that since the war begun people have been saying ukraine has no chance, and yet here we are with ukraine still existing and independent… i guess when you’re defending your home you can pull some pretty impressive manoeuvres out of nowhere that people hadn’t accounted for

[–] silicon@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Russia is so incompetent I'm sure Ukraine could execute something similar several times again.

[–] Kekzkrieger@feddit.org -5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Are we sure that these were the aircrafts shooting the bombs?

Dont get me wrong, i hope they were and every Russian plane that goes up in flames is good, i just want to be really happy if there is some proof those were the actual planes that Ruzzia was using.

[–] MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 22 points 3 days ago

They're heavy strategic bombers, like a full size commercial jet, they don't have a lot of them and they could use more. So yes, these were definitively used to bomb Ukraine.

[–] bollybing@lemmynsfw.com 13 points 3 days ago

What does it matter in the end? Russia doesn't say these bombers and only these bombers are for bombing Ukraine and if they get destroyed we'll stop bombing Ukraine even though we have other bombers available. They'll use whatever capacity they have, so any reduction in that capacity is a win.