Kyiv releases new drone footage of Operation ‘Spiderweb’ as more details emerge

Published connected 04/06/2025 - 18:24 GMT+2•Updated 18:26

Ukraine’s information work (SBU) released caller drone footage of Operation "Spiderweb", showing really precisely Kyiv struck 41 Russian dense subject bombers past Sunday.

The footage released connected Wednesday shows Ukraine’s first-person-view drones striking 4 Russian airfields: Dyagilevo successful nan Riazan region, Ivanovo successful nan Ivanovo region, Belaya aerial guidelines successful nan Irkutsk region, located successful south-eastern Siberia complete 4,000km eastbound of nan frontline, and Olenya aerial guidelines successful Russia's Murmansk region, immoderate 2,000km distant from Ukraine’s border.

Kyiv said these were nan airfields wherever Russian strategical aviation "had been based". The damaged craft see A-50, Tu-95, Tu-22, Tu-160, arsenic good arsenic An-12 and Il-78.

Moscow uses these dense bombers for regular attacks connected Ukrainian cities.

The SBU besides revealed that it utilized a modern UAV power exertion during this operation. It mixed autonomous artificial intelligence algorithms and manual usability interventions.

Ukraine’s information work says immoderate of nan UAVs mislaid awesome and would move to an artificial intelligence-assisted ngo pursuing a pre-planned route. The warhead past automatically detonated arsenic it approached and made interaction pinch a circumstantial target.

Earlier, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that 117 drones had been utilized successful Operation Spiderweb, each pinch its ain pilot. 

The General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces confirmed connected Tuesday that Russia mislaid 41 subject aircraft.

How Ukraine attacked Russian craft from Russian territory

Zelenskyy said it took Kyiv "one year, six months, and 9 days from nan commencement of readying to effective execution."

Kyiv managed to smuggle FPV drones heavy wrong Russia and hide them wrong trucks successful mobile log cabins.

The cabins' roofs were past opened remotely, and nan drones proceeded to motorboat their onslaught connected Russian subject bombers. 

Social media footage wide shared by Russian media appears to show nan drones rising from wrong containers, while nan panels dishonesty discarded connected nan road.

On Wednesday, Ukraine’s president said Kyiv would not person launched its drone onslaught connected Russian strategical bombers if Moscow had accepted Kyiv's calls for a ceasefire.

Zelenskyy said Ukraine has many times urged Russia to judge nan US-backed 30-day ceasefire proposal, which could beryllium nan first measurement to putting an extremity to Russia’s all-out warfare against Ukraine.

However during nan 2nd information of talks connected Monday, Moscow rejected nan connection erstwhile again.

"If location had been a ceasefire, would nan cognition person taken place? No," Zelenskyy explained, adding that astir half of nan planes will beryllium intolerable to repair, while others will require important clip to beryllium put backmost into service.