Operation "Web": how the Ukrainian special services attacked distant Russian regions with the help of drones

And this is what the cargo looked like, with the help of which the Ukrainian special services managed to attack distant Russian regions.

The Ukrainian special operation "Spider Web" has become one of the largest attacks on Russian military installations deep in the country. According to the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), drones were used to carry out the operation, which were secretly brought to Russia, packed with explosives and hidden in special containers.

At first, the drones were delivered to the territory of Russia, where special people equipped them with explosives and loaded them into mobile wooden houses or containers placed on trucks. After completing their training, these people left the country. Containers with drones were then transported to military airfields in different regions of Russia.

As the trucks traveled along pre-determined routes, the walls of the containers were remotely opened, and the drones flew out to the targets. As a result of the operation, which lasted about a year and a half and was under the personal control of the head of the SBU Vasily Malyuk, at least two airfields were hit — Olenye (Murmansk region) and Belaya (Irkutsk region).

According to official data, several Russian aircraft were destroyed or damaged during the operation, including the A-50, Tu-95 and Tu-22 M3 strategic bombers. The total damage to the Russian army is estimated at about two billion dollars. The operation was the largest to defeat the strategic aviation of the Russian Federation in the history of the conflict.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky called Operation Spider the "longest-range" and noted that its details would go down in the history books. An important element of the success was the organization of the "office" of the operation directly on the territory of Russia next to the FSB headquarters.