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Russia’s Pearl Harbor
Ukraine Blew Up a Third of Russia’s Nuclear Bomber Fleet. With Drones. On Russian Soil.
Putin’s war machine suffered its biggest single-day loss since the invasion began — and it happened yesterday. Not on the battlefield, but deep inside Russia. In Siberia. In Murmansk. In Irkutsk. At airfields the Kremlin thought were untouchable.
Early Sunday morning, Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) launched a long-planned covert operation codenamed Spiderweb.
And what a web it was.
After pulling off the most daring and devastating strike ever against Russia’s strategic forces, the Security Service of Ukraine issued the following statement:
$7 billion USD. That’s the estimated value of the enemy’s strategic aviation hit today as a result of the SBU’s special operation “Spiderweb.”
34% of Russia’s strategic cruise missile carriers were struck at their main airbases.
We’ll share more details about the SBU’s special operation a bit later.
But for now, we have only one thing to say to the Russians:
“And you thought Ukraine would be easy? Ukraine is magnificent. Ukraine is one of a kind. She’s been run over by every steamroller of history. Every type of trial has…