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It is difficult to exaggerate pure boldness – or ingenuity – they have entered the attack throughout the country of Ukraine against the Air Force of Russia.
We cannot check Ukrainian allegations that the attacks have led to $ 7 billion.
Ukrainians have already compared it to other remarkable military successes since the full -scale invasion of Russia, including the sinking of the flagship of the Russian Black Sea, Muska and the bombing of the Kerch Bridge, both in 2022, and a missile attack at the port of Sevastopol next year.
Judging by the details that have leaked to the media from the military intelligence of Ukraine, SBU, the most complicated achievement so far.
In an operation that is said to have taken 18 months to prepare, dozens of small drones were smuggled in Russia, stored in special wards on board trucks, driven to at least four separate places, thousands of miles from each other and fired remotely to nearby airbases.
“No intelligence operation in the world has done anything like this before,” Defense Analyst Sergius Kuzan told Ukrainian television.
“These strategic bombers are able to start strikes at long distances against us,” he said. “There are only 120 of them and we hit 40. It’s an incredible figure.”
It is difficult to evaluate the damage, but the Ukrainian military blogger Alexander Kovalenko says that even bombers and commanders and control planes have not been destroyed, the impact is huge.
“The degree of damage is that the Russian military-industrial complex in its current state is unlikely to be able to restore them in the near future,” he wrote on his Telegram channel.
The strategic rocket bombers, TU-95, TU-22 and TU-160 are, he said, no longer in production. Fixing them will be difficult by replacing them impossible.
The loss of the supersonic TU-160, he said, will be particularly felt.
“Today, Russian aerospace forces have lost not only two of their most planes, but really two unicorns in the herd,” he writes.
Beyond the physical damage that may or may not be as large as the analysts here appreciate, the Spider’s network sends another critical message not only to Russia but also to the Western allies of Ukraine.
My colleague Sitoslav Homenko, writing about the BBC Ukrainian Website, recalls a recent meeting with a government official at KYIV.
The employee was disappointed.
“The biggest problem,” said the Svyatoslav employee, “is that the Americans have convinced themselves that we have already lost the war. And this is the assumption of everything else follows.”
The Ukrainian Defense Journalist Iliya Ponomarenko, posting to X, puts him in another way, with a focused reference to the scandalous meeting of President Volodimir Zelenski with Donald Trump.
“This happens when a proud nation under attack does not listen to all of these:” Ukraine is left only six months. ” You don’t have cards. ” Just give up for peace, Russia cannot lose. “
An even more washed was a tweet of the quarterly business Ukraine Journal, which proudly announced “It turns out that Ukraine after all has cards. Today, Zelenski played the King of Drones.”
This is the message that the Ukrainian delegates carry when they arrive in Istanbul for a new circle of negotiations to end fire with Kremlin representatives: Ukraine is still in the fight.
The Americans “are beginning to act as if their role is to negotiate the most soft transmission conditions for us,” the government official told Svyatoslav Khomenko.
“And then they are offended when we don’t thank them. But of course we don’t do it – because we don’t believe we were defeated.”
Despite the slow, relentless progress through Donbass’s battlefields, Ukraine tells Russia and the Trump administration not to reject Kiev’s prospects so easily.