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Ukraine Launches Massive Drone Swarm Attack On Russian Airfields

 
Geopolitics.
War.
2024Q4 Issue (current)

Via Zerohedge.

On Sunday, the Russian Ministry of Defense issued an official statement that a coordinated Ukrainian drone swarm attack targeted and damaged military aircraft across several airbases located deep within Russian territory.

Affected airfields reportedly include:

  • Murmansk Oblast

  • Irkutsk Oblast

  • Ivanovo Oblast

  • Ryazan Oblast

  • Amur Oblast

russian pearl harbor

Multiple U.S. media outlets—including Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, and CBS News—have independently confirmed the Ukrainian drone swarm operation targeted and destroyed approximately 40 Russian military aircraft across four airbases. 

According to Ukrainian intelligence officials cited by CBS News, the aircraft destroyed include Tu-95MS and Tu-22M3 bombers, which play a central role in Russia's strategic and nuclear-capable long-range aviation forces.

 The Military Balance+, a database maintained by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, indicated that Russia had a fleet of 54 Tu-22M3s and 58 Tu-95MS bombers before the attack. It remains unclear how many of these long-range bombers were destroyed.

A Ukrainian security official told the Associated Press that planning for the attack took about 1.5 years and was personally supervised by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. 

While White House spokespeople didn't provide a comment to CBS on the attack, administration sources told the outlet that the Trump administration was not aware of it beforehand. 

 

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On 2025-06-02 content-donor said:

Russia has a civilian evacuation procedure before nuclear launch.

The USA and EU have a politician and military leadership evacuation program.


Let that sink in.

On 2025-06-02 content-donor said:

This attack is a major violation of the START treaty by the US and NATO. START guaranteed safety of strategic aircraft parked on open air for verification by satellites. The US was informed of the attack but did not stop it. Moreover, Ukraine went out of its way announcing that they informed Trump, thus confirming that the US violated the treaty...

Chances of a nuclear false flag increased significantly. UK preparing for war – PM

On 2025-06-02 content-donor said:

EU needs a cover for their collapsing economies so war it is. problem being, they need the US and unless Putin hits a NATO country the US is out. This is why they are pushing Putin so hard. Hope he doesnt take the bait. He's wining  anyway.

Americans have more in common with the Russians than with the Europeans. 

On 2025-06-02 content-donor said:

First: Three Tu-95s and four Tu-22s is not 40+ destroyed aircraft.

Also.., a little context on what was destroyed.

Tu-22 (medium range bomber) introduced in 1962. Production ceased in 1969. Status=retired.

Tu-95 (long range bomber) entered service in 1956. Production ceased in 1993. Status= limited service.

Doesn’t seem like the “fatal blow” the (western) media so breathlessly claims.

Russia is working to harden aircraft storage for all systems. However they do not have unlimited resources.., and likely have limited hardened storage capacity. Suffice to say that these planes were on the tarmac precisely due to their being a lower priority.., relative to more critical systems.., like the Tu-160s.

Note how none of those were destroyed.

On 2025-06-02 content-donor said:

Putting the loss of Russia’s strategic defense in perspective, Alastair Crooke, former British diplomat, said this morning that we're talking about the loss of about five, maybe more, planes in these areas.

“So it it's not going to change the course of history… It's not a threat to Russia's strategic nuclear capabilities. But there is one thing that is very important to understand…

“The requirement of the START and SALT nuclear treaties that strategic bombers have to be observable by visual and electronic means and out in the open - and the same applies by the way to American strategic bombers: they are also put out in the open -  by this [means] we are entering a new era of war because what we are seeing here is several types of what the Ukrainians called asymmetric warfare but others would call terrorist warfare…

“Ukraine supported by its allies in the west has now bombed directly a part of the strategic deterrence which has got to be visible and out in the open under the treaties. So it's an attack on the main treaties which are not with Ukraine but are which were negotiated by Russia with the United States.

“And of course the big question is that in the last few days when Mr. Trump started talking about, Look, if Russia doesn't do what I'm telling them something really, really bad is going to happen to them, and, then, shortly thereafter this happened.

”I think the Russians are furious….”

Judging Freedom video - Alastair Crooke : A Storm is Brewing in the West.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whSuPnGWOSg