The first satellite images following the Ukrainian operation shows considerable damage on an aerodrome 4000 km from Ukraine
The first satellite images appeared with the consequences of the major attack with Ukrainian drones on the Belaia air base in the Irkuțk region, revealing significant damages to the strategic bombing fleet, posted Xis Bigge's Geospatial information consultant on Monday, reports Kyiv Independent.
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The attack was part of a coordinated operation of the Ukraine Security Service (SBU), which targeted several Russian military aerodromes.
The photos, taken by the American Aerospace Company the shadow Space, seem to confirm the destruction of at least three strategic TU-95MS bombers and a TU-22M3 aircraft, a fourth TU-95MS being visibly damaged. Another image captures two other TU-22M3 bombers, probably destroyed.
SBU performed the massive drone attack on June 1, which would have hit 41 Russian aircraft on four aerodromes from different regions, including in Siberia.
Andrii Kovalenko, an official of the National Council of Security and Defense of Ukraine and the head of the Center for Combating Misinformation, said that at least 13 Russian planes were destroyed, and others were damaged. The statements could not be verified independently.
According to a SBU source that spoke with Kyiv Independent, the operation – with the code name “spider cloth” – involved the introduction of dozens of FPV drones in the depth of the Russian territory. The drones were hidden in mobile wooden booths transported in trucks and launched remotely at the right time against bombers used in rocket attacks on Ukrainian cities.
Belaia air base, over 4,000 kilometers from Ukraine, has been among the farthest targets. Other bases included Olenia (Murmansk region), Diaghilev (Riazan region) and Ivanovo (Ivanovo region).
SBU said that the blows were operating 34% of Russia's strategic bombers and caused about $ 7 billion damage.
The Russian Defense Ministry later recognized a “terrorist attack” on the four air bases, adding that “more aircraft caught fire.”
The magnitude and ray of operation of the operation, facility of low-cost FPV drones, highlights the increasing capabilities of long distances of Ukraine, especially against aircraft launching rocket dams from the depths of Russian territory.
SBU chief Vasil Maliuk, and President Volodimir Zelenski would have supervised the meticulous planned operation over 18 months.
On Sunday, Zelenski described the operation as a “brilliant”, adding that Russia suffered “significant, fully justified and deserving losses.”
“The most interesting thing, and this can now be publicly affirmed, is that the” office “of our operation on the Russian territory was located right next to the FSB headquarters, in one of the regions” LOvite, he wrote in a post on social networks.
“In total, 117 drones were used in the operation and a proper number of drone operators”he added.
