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Anne Applebaum-Ukrainians said to have hit 40 Russian planes this morning
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‼️Unique footage and details of the preparation of the operation to destroy Russian air bases published by the SBU! Drones were hidden in the roofs of camouflaged cargo containers.
According to SBU sources, Ukraine's Security Service conducted a special operation called "Pautyna" ("Spiderweb"
, which had been in planning for over a year and a half and resulted in strikes on 41 Russian strategic aircraft.
The operation was personally overseen by President Volodymyr Zelensky, with execution led by SBU chief Vasyl Maliuk and his team.
The mission involved complex logistics:
•FPV drones were first smuggled into Russian territory
•Later, mobile wooden sheds were also transported in
•The drones were hidden under the roofs of these sheds, which were placed on cargo trucks
•At the designated time, the roofs opened remotely and the drones launched, targeting military airfields and aircraft
SBU sources emphasize that all personnel involved in the operation are already back in Ukraine, so any future arrests by Russian authorities would likely be for domestic propaganda purposes.
According to SBU sources, Ukraine's Security Service conducted a special operation called "Pautyna" ("Spiderweb"
, which had been in planning for over a year and a half and resulted in strikes on 41 Russian strategic aircraft.
The operation was personally overseen by President Volodymyr Zelensky, with execution led by SBU chief Vasyl Maliuk and his team.
The mission involved complex logistics:
•FPV drones were first smuggled into Russian territory
•Later, mobile wooden sheds were also transported in
•The drones were hidden under the roofs of these sheds, which were placed on cargo trucks
•At the designated time, the roofs opened remotely and the drones launched, targeting military airfields and aircraft
SBU sources emphasize that all personnel involved in the operation are already back in Ukraine, so any future arrests by Russian authorities would likely be for domestic propaganda purposes.
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And NATO too. Putin has Trump nearly out of NATO, so there's a slot for Ukraine
Had they been admitted, slimeball pootin would never have dared to invade their country! Hillary knew -- the kept warning and warning...
immediately, IMO.
Note to self....don't get into a conflict with Ukraine. They'll kick your ass. 
Putin is NOT going to be happy
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Russia’s strategic bomber fleet burns!
Drones were lunched from trucks near 4 airfields deep inside Russia.
More than 40 planes destroyed at:
- Olenya Air Base in Murmansk
- Belaya Air Base in Irkutsk
- Ivanovo Air Base in Ivanovo
- Dyagilevo Air Base Ryazan
Drones were lunched from trucks near 4 airfields deep inside Russia.
More than 40 planes destroyed at:
- Olenya Air Base in Murmansk
- Belaya Air Base in Irkutsk
- Ivanovo Air Base in Ivanovo
- Dyagilevo Air Base Ryazan
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Slava Ukrani!
(Rofer is a chemist who used to work at Los Alamos, and was involved in NBC clear-up of former Soviet countries after the dissolution of the USSR)
The Ukrainian drone attack hit two components of the Russian nuclear force. The primary purpose of the attack was to destroy the planes that launch cruise missiles at Ukraine. Some of those planes are also the types that carry nuclear weapons. There also were hits at Severomorsk, the headquarters of the Northern Fleet and Russia’s ballistic missile submarines. We have much less information about the hits at Severomorsk, so I won’t say more about it in this post. I want to make clear that from what we know, no nuclear weapons were involved in today’s action. The primary nuclear bomber bases were not targeted.
As much as a third of Russia’s nuclear bomber fleet was destroyed. No new bombers have been produced for some time, and there are no facilities to produce them. This has serious implications for the nuclear balance between Russia and the United States.
The nuclear balance is maintained when both sides can credibly destroy the other in a return attack. Both sides rely on three types of delivery vehicles for that second strike capability: land-based ICBMs, submarines, and bombers. The land-based ICBMs would go first, both offensively and defensively. Their locations and requirements for destruction are known, so they would be the first to be fired and the first to be destroyed.
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For those of us contemplating this from our place in front of a consumer-quality computer, it seems like it shouldn’t make a big difference. But the military makes calculations of deterrence effects, and those calculations have now changed. Whether forcing that change was escalatory is not clear; we will eventually hear from Russia about that, mostly in what they do. My own judgment is that they will not escalate to the use of nuclear weapons. What else they do is open, although they now have fewer planes to do it with.
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/06/more-thoughts-on-russias-bomber-losses
As much as a third of Russia’s nuclear bomber fleet was destroyed. No new bombers have been produced for some time, and there are no facilities to produce them. This has serious implications for the nuclear balance between Russia and the United States.
The nuclear balance is maintained when both sides can credibly destroy the other in a return attack. Both sides rely on three types of delivery vehicles for that second strike capability: land-based ICBMs, submarines, and bombers. The land-based ICBMs would go first, both offensively and defensively. Their locations and requirements for destruction are known, so they would be the first to be fired and the first to be destroyed.
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For those of us contemplating this from our place in front of a consumer-quality computer, it seems like it shouldn’t make a big difference. But the military makes calculations of deterrence effects, and those calculations have now changed. Whether forcing that change was escalatory is not clear; we will eventually hear from Russia about that, mostly in what they do. My own judgment is that they will not escalate to the use of nuclear weapons. What else they do is open, although they now have fewer planes to do it with.
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/06/more-thoughts-on-russias-bomber-losses
Plus:
And did intelligence come from the U.S.?
Yes? Wink wink. That's terrible. That might drive a wedge between this administration and Putin. Oh no.
. Wasn't Tulsi monitoring on Russia's behalf? There's gonna be some splainin to do.
The U.S. needs to take notice.
Think David vs Goliath
I read the daily reports on Russian losses in the Ukraine conflict this report made me smile
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Update from General Staff ⚡️
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"After processing additional information from various sources and its verification, which took some time, we inform you that the total losses of the occupiers amounted to 41 military aircraft, including strategic bombers and other types of combat aircraft."
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"After processing additional information from various sources and its verification, which took some time, we inform you that the total losses of the occupiers amounted to 41 military aircraft, including strategic bombers and other types of combat aircraft."
