Overview

• Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) executed operation 'Telaraña' using 117 FPV drones smuggled into Russia over 18 months to strike four air bases: Dyagilevo, Ivánovo, Belaya and Olenya.
• Kyiv claims the raid damaged or destroyed 41 long-range aircraft, including Tu-95 and Tu-22M3 bombers and an A-50 early warning plane, undermining Russia’s strategic air power.
• Russia countered with a large-scale drone and missile barrage against Ukrainian regions, deploying over 80 drones and four missiles that caused civilian and military casualties.
• A separate sabotage event in the Bryansk region caused a rail bridge collapse on June 1, killing at least seven people and injuring nearly 70, as local officials investigate.
• Talks resumed in Istanbul on June 2 with Ukraine’s delegation led by Rustem Umérov and Russia’s led by Vladimir Medinsky, with Kyiv demanding an unconditional ceasefire and prisoner exchanges.