Overview

• The operation, codenamed “Web” by Ukraine’s Security Service, involved smuggling FPV drones into Russia hidden under wooden shed roofs mounted on trucks.
• Drones struck airfields across five regions, including Belaya in Irkutsk and sites in Murmansk, Amur, Ivanovo and Ryazan, damaging A-50, Tu-95 and Tu-22M aircraft.
• Russia’s Defense Ministry confirmed the attacks caused fires and multimillion-dollar losses, while repelling drone launches in the Far East and western regions.
• In retaliation, Russia launched its largest drone and missile barrage since February 2022, deploying 472 drones and seven missiles against Ukrainian positions.
• Russia seized Oleksiivka in Ukraine’s Sumy region and a Russian missile strike on a Ukrainian training unit killed 12 soldiers, prompting Commander Mykhailo Drapatyi to resign.