Overview

• President Zelenskyy personally oversaw Operation Web, deploying over 100 FPV drones smuggled into Russia hidden in mobile wooden shelters to hit five airbases.
• Ukraine’s Security Service put the damage at $7 billion after strikes damaged dozens of Tu-95 and A-50 bombers, a claim Russia’s Defense Ministry partly confirmed by reporting fires at Irkutsk and Murmansk bases.
• Russia retaliated with missiles and a record 472 drones targeting Ukrainian positions, killing at least 12 service members and wounding more than 60 in a missile strike on a rear training unit.
• Ukrainian Ground Forces commander Mykhailo Drapatyi resigned after the attack on his training unit underscored vulnerabilities in troop concentrations under heavy drone surveillance.
• Ukraine and Russia will reconvene peace talks in Istanbul on June 2, where Kyiv intends to push for a ceasefire and a prisoner exchange.