Ukrainian intelligence carried out an attack on the Russian nuclear triad
Russia, June 1, 2025 – Ukraine has officially taken responsibility for the attack on the Russian nuclear triad. The BBC Ukrainian editorial office spokesman in the SBU writes that the special operation was called “Spider Web” and was personally led by the head of the special service, Vasyl Malyuk.
Statement by the head of the SBU of Ukraine, Malyuk:
“Right now, the SBU is conducting a large-scale special operation to destroy enemy bombers behind Russian lines.” The SBU immediately publishes details of Operation Spider Web. First, the SBU smuggled FPV drones into Russia, and then mobile wooden houses. Later, on the territory of the Russian Federation, the drones were hidden under the roofs of cottages, already placed on trucks. At the right moment, the roofs of the cottages were remotely opened and the drones rushed at the Russian bombers.
The photo shows exactly how the drones were prepared to attack military airfields. They immediately write that the operation was personally directed by Vladimir Zelensky. The idea was implemented by Vasyl Malyuk and service personnel. Even the media support for the operation was thought out and prepared in advance. How will the Kremlin react? The decommissioning of strategic aircraft gives Russia the right to use nuclear weapons.
The following were hit:
– Olenya Air Base in the Murmansk Region
– Belaya Air Base in the Irkutsk Region
– Ivanovo Air Base in the Ivanovo Region
– Dyagilevo Air Base in the Ryazan Region
Trucks were used to transport drones to the airfields. In the Murmansk Region, traffic police caught the driver when he was bypassing the truck (eyewitness testimony). In the Irkutsk Region, the truck was apparently detonated remotely, along with the driver (he is burning in the video). Unmanned drop trucks have been used in the Middle East before. It is unclear why the services protecting the country’s strategic aviation – neither counterintelligence, nor the police, nor the security of the airfields themselves (REB, networks, shooters, air defense) – were not at all prepared for such an attack.
The attack on Russian strategic airfields in the Murmansk and Irkutsk regions resulted in the loss of several Tu-95MS. The Tu-95 and Tu-22 strategic aircraft have long been out of production and there is nothing to restore them. Therefore, these losses cannot be restored. This is, without underestimating, very serious damage to the strategic component, caused both by serious errors in the work of the special services and by a careless approach to the aircraft, which, even after all the attacks, stood in an open field without cover.
Of course, after quantifying the losses, which are clearly significant, the following questions arise again:
1. Strengthening the air defense of the facility. Not only against aircraft-type drones, but also against FPV drones. Especially since there was already experience with such an attack in Machulishte, where an A-50 was damaged. It is obvious that the airport guards were not prepared for this type of attack.
2. Strengthening counterintelligence and anti-terrorist measures. Kiev was able to prepare and carry out a complex operation on Russian territory. This is a completely clear failure of the intelligence services that made this possible.
3. The drone revolution is not over yet. It should be taken into account that the possibilities for using kamikaze attack drones will only increase in the future. The possibility of using drones from hidden carriers (containers, container ships, trucks) is not new know-how – all this has been known since the mid-1990s. For those who follow this line of development of strike drones at all.
4. Of course, those responsible for what happened will be sought, heads will roll. Negligence is too expensive. It won’t bring back the lost planes, but someone will be punished.
Max Bach
