Overview

• Ukraine’s Security Service executed Operation Spider’s Web on June 1, deploying 117 truck-launched drone bombs against Olenya, Ivanovo, Dyagilevo and Belaya airfields and striking 41 aircraft valued at over $7 billion.
• Satellite imagery shows two nuclear-capable Tu-160 bombers relocated nearly 4,000 miles from the Irkutsk region to the remote Anadyr base, complicating Russia’s long-range strike operations.
• Russian forces have launched intensified Shahed drone and missile barrages, including a nine-minute salvo on Kharkiv that killed at least six people and wounded more than 60.
• Ukraine conducted counterstrikes deep in Russian territory, hitting a major gunpowder plant in the Tambov region and damaging ammunition depots in Kursk and Voronezh.
• In a humanitarian gesture under Istanbul accords, Ukraine received the remains of 1,212 fallen soldiers and transferred 27 Russian bodies after days of dispute.