Overview

• Ukraine launched Operation Spider Web on May 27–28, deploying long-range drones for one of its largest deep-strike missions into Russian territory.
• Kyiv’s intelligence reports that over 40 strategic aircraft—among them A-50 AWACS planes, Tu-95 bombers and Tu-22M3 jets—were destroyed in the raid.
• Drones struck the Raduga defense factory near Dubna and the Belaya military airbase in Irkutsk region, reaching up to 6,000 kilometers from the frontline.
• Preliminary assessments estimate at least $2 billion in damage as Ukraine aims to degrade Russia’s heavy aviation and disrupt its supply chains.
• The deep strikes coincide with renewed Russian offensives in the Donbass and Sumy regions, underscoring a broad escalation of the conflict.