War Ukraine-Russia: Kiev’s “Spinnennetz” campaign: new number of destroyed aircraft

In the Ukrainian secret surgery “spider web” with drone attacks against Russian military airports far in the hinterland, fewer aircraft may have been destroyed than originally called from Kiev. The new information from the Ukrainian general staff shows that the Russian armed forces are said to have lost twelve aircraft. The rod did not name aircraft types. The SBU secret service had previously spoken of 41 at least damaged aircraft, including the early warning aircraft Berijew A-50, Tupolew TU-95, TU-22 and TU-160.

Ukraine had celebrated the drone attacks at airports in the Irkutsk and Murmansk area in the course of the Operation Spider Netz as an unprecedented blow against the Russian Air Force. According to SBU, more than 40 fighting and reconnaissance aircraft were hit- around 34 percent of the Russian bombers who are able to discontinue a canal aircraft.

Russia announces revenge

A sharp reaction was announced from the Russian side. “Revenge is inevitable,” wrote the vice chief of the Russian Security Council, Dmitri Medvedev, at Telegram. At the same time, he referred to the active advance of the Russian army. “Everything that should be blown up will be blown up in the air, and those who should be wiped out will disappear,” continued the Russian ex-president. Negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul are not necessary to achieve compromise peace. Rather, they served to bring the Russian victory closer.

Media also counted less destroyed aircraft

The Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed that aircraft had caught fire through drone attacks in the Murmansk and Irkutsk regions, but did not give any numbers or types. Independent media had mentioned significantly lower numbers in their own research after evaluating videos and satellite images than the Ukrainian secret service – between 9 damaged aircraft and nothing more than 14.

The small remote -controlled aircraft were therefore hidden in wooden boxes on trucks, the drivers of which were unsuspecting to the military grounds. There the truck roofs opened automatically, and the drones with explosives started their attack.

The Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj celebrated the surprising attack by his secret service SBU as a “absolutely brilliant success”. One and a half years of preparation were preceded. Support points were attacked in the Iwanowo, Rjasan and Murmansk regions in the European part of Russia, Irkutsk in Siberia and Amur in the Far East.