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erronis

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Mon Jun 2, 2025, 03:51 PM Jun 2025

Let's Watch Russian Planes Get Blown Up By Ukrainian Drones! -- Wonkette [View all]

https://www.wonkette.com/p/lets-watch-russian-planes-get-blown

So satisfying.

I know most of us have seen a few of these videos, or perhaps all of them - multiple times. There is never too much of a good thing.



Do you enjoy watching Russian airplanes getting blown up by drones from Ukraine? Has President Volodymyr Zelenskyy got a treat for you! Ukraine launched a stealth attack inside of Russia on Sunday, with smuggled-in first-person-view kamikaze drones hitting targets as far from the Ukrainian border as Siberia. The day before Russian-instigated peace talks in Istanbul, too. Who’s holding the karty now?

The attack blew up at least 41 Russian planes on five different military bases — Amur, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Murmansk and Ryazan — destroying what Ukraine claims was 34 percent of Russia’s air fleet. And two bridges collapsed too. Making it even better, the planes were Tu-95 and Tu-22 strategic bombers that carry long-range missiles, and an A-50 spy plane, all irreplaceable because they’re made from cannibalized parts of planes left over from the old Soviet Union. Some of the Russian planes dated as far back as the 1950s, and still had propellers. So the lost Russian planes were worth somewhere between $100 million each and priceless, while Ukraine’s drones that destroyed them cost about $600.

And, Ukraine planned the attack for a year and a half, and pulled it all off without a single leak, and without letting the White House know. Smart move, given that the whole world knows Trump would immediately tell Vladimir Putin during one of their late-night chats where they dare each other to hang up first, and how very unclear the Pentagon has been on OPSEC, with Pete Hegseth nonstop blabbing things he has no business talking about.

Ukraine smuggled in 117 drones hidden in the roofs of wooden cabins. Then the roofs all opened remotely and the drones did their stuff. Watch!

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Videos on Wonkette page above.
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