Ukrainian drone attacks: David's brave attacks on Russian goals

Ukrainian drone attacks: David's brave attacks on Russian goals

cnn-the large-scale drone attack The Ukraine on Russian air base Behind the front lines, the youngest is in a long series of daring missions of the Ukrainian armed forces against their mighty neighbor.

This assignment, for which more than a year preparation was necessary, included smuggling drones to Russia and their hiding places in mobile wooden houses on trucks, such as a source of the SBU, the Ukrainian domestic service agency.

The attacks caused damage of an estimated $ 7 billion and met 34 % of Russia's strategic cruise tractors to his main air racing points. The offensive also showed that the Ukraine is still able to put Russia under pressure, even while Moscow its own attacks and Operations reinforced.

underground drone operations

Analysts have described the Ukraine drone attack on the bomber bases on Sunday as the most important since the beginning of the war.

According to information from an SBU security sources, over 40 aircraft, including TU-95 and TU-22M3 strategy bombers, and one of the remaining A-50 reconnaissance aircraft in Russia, were made.

The TU-22M3 is Russia's platform for long-range missile attacks, which enables stand-off attacks, in which rockets from Russian airspace, far behind the front lines, can be fired to stay outside of Ukrainian air defense fire.

At the beginning of the year, Russia had 55 TU-22M3 jets and 57 TU-95 in its fleet, according to the report "Military Balance 2025" by the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

The TU-95 entered the Soviet Union's Air Force in the 1950s, and Russia modified these aircraft to fire cruise rocks such as TU-22.

The military air drive expert Peter Layton explained that the loss of these bombers, which can transport the most difficult and most powerful cruise rocks, means that Russia will be more dependent on drones for attacks on Ukraine in the future.

Outside of the immediate air war, the attack on the air base will be a significant distraction for Russian President Wladimir Putin, noticed Carl Schuster, a former director of operations in the Joint Intelligence Center of the US Pacific Command and now military analyst in Hawaii.

"Putin will have to direct more resources to internal security after such an inner security failure," said Schuster. "Ukraine was able to position dozens of containers with drones in sight of important Russian strategy gases and start massive air strikes. Can you imagine how to explain this to Putin?"

The downfall of the pride of the Russian Black Sea fleet

One of the first great success of the Ukraine was the Moskva , the pride of the Russian Black Sea fleet, in the early war months.

The moskva was one of the against the Russian armed forces, which at this time 50 days after Putins Invasion fought.

In April 2022, the operational command south of Ukraine explained that the Moscow had started to sink after it was hit by Ukrainian Neptune-Anti shipping missiles.

Russia, on the other hand, stated that a fire broke out on the steering weapon cruiser, which explodes ammunition on board and the ship was badly damaged, which led to evacuation of the crew.

Analysts said that the loss of the Moskva hit the heart of the Russian Navy and the national pride, comparable to the loss of a slaughterhouse of the US Navy in World War I or an aircraft carrier today.

Consequently there was a number of defeats of the Black Sea fleet of Moscow.

at the beginning of 2024 damage to the Crimean Bridge

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