Last updated on August 27th, 2025 at 04:18 pm
Ukraine has pulled off one of the most daring operations of the war, which sent a shockwave that tore through Russian defences. 117 drones, collected in trucks, slipped across territory and were deposited silently at the edges of four Russian air bases.
One target sat 2,500 miles deep in Siberia. The scale was devastating.
Ukraine announces that the operation called the “Spiderweb” affected 40 Russian aircraft. That’s over a third of the Kremlin’s strategic cruise missile fleet.
Their security service, the SBU, pegs the cost of the damages recorded at $7 billion. Pro-Russian voices are calling it Russia’s “Pearl Harbor.” Pearl Harbor is not hyperbole; it’s history sounding with consequences.
The timing was ruthless. The strike landed hours before the commencement of another Ukraine-Russia peace talk. But from the beginning, the talks seem like theater, one that will change nothing. Ukraine sent its defense minister. Russia sent a junior aide. The symbolism couldn’t be starker.
Western analysts claimed that the operation wasn’t just military damage. It was a humiliation to Russia. A slap to Putin’s pride. Keir Giles of Chatham House didn’t mince words when he claimed that Russia’s bomber fleet was exposed, degraded, and diminished.
Retaliation is coming. Not as a response, but as a planned continuation of Russia’s war. That’s the chilling part: predictable brutality, masked as revenge.
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