New evidence is being released on how the pounding was organized into Russian air bases early Sunday morning, code -named “Spider Web”.
For his part, the head of his office, Andrei Germak, made a seemingly relevant reference to the huge business with his country’s drones. Germak posted an emoji on Sunday with a spider web both on his Telegram channel and X, in a seemingly reference to the name of the attack.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said Ukraine had launched Sunday attacks with unmanned aircraft aimed at Russian military airports in five areas, resulting in “some aircraft fire”.
Drones in wooden containers
According to the same sources, the first wave of FPV drones was sent to Russian territory followed by mobile wooden containers. As soon as they arrived at Russian territory, the drones were hiding in these containers who were placed on trucks.
At the time of the attack, the containers opened with remote control, allowing drones to take off and hit the nearby air bases. Video released on Ukrainian media shows drones popping up from the roof of such a container.
BREAKING:
New video shows Ukrainian drone swarms emerging out of trucks & attacking Russia’s fleet of strategic bombers
4 air bases deep inside Russia were struck in a coordinated attack with up to 40 planes destroyed, including A-50 (AEW&C) & Tu-95 & Tu-22 long-range bombers
– Visegrád 24 (@Visegrad24)
Damages of more than $ 2 billion
The Ukrainian side estimates that the damage caused to Russian bases exceeds $ 2 billion. The targets affected include strategically TU-95 bombers, TU-22M3 ultrasound as well as A-50s early warning aircraft, critical to the operational capabilities of the Russian Air Force.
The attacks took place in the areas of Murmank, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Riazan and Amur. Air defense rejected attacks in all areas except two – Murmank and Irkutsk, the ministry said, according to Reuters.
“In the Murmank and Irkutsk areas, the launch of unmanned FPV aircraft from area nearby airports has resulted in some aircraft fire,” the ministry said.
The fires were extinguished and no victims reported. Some people involved in the attacks were arrested, the ministry said
Investigated driver of a truck believed to be involved in attack
The Russian state media has said that the driver of a truck believed to be involved in a drone attack will be interrogated by police.
Ukraine announced that Russia attacked her in the evening with 472 drones
Ukraine said today that its territory was targeted by 472 Russian non-human aircraft (Drones) at night, a record number after the Russian invasion began, on the eve of the new negotiations expected to take place with Moscow.
Russia launched 472 unmanned aircraft and seven rockets, the Air Force said, saying that it has eliminated 385 of them. The PA spokesman then confirmed to the French Agency that it was the largest attack of Russian unmanned aircraft since the start of the war in February 2022.
Zelenski says Kiev will send a delegation to Istanbul
At the same time, the diplomatic background continues.
Ukraine President Volodimir Zelenski said Kiev would send a delegation for a meeting to Constantinople tomorrow, Monday, proposed by Russia.
“I described the positions (of Ukraine) before the meeting in Istanbul on Monday,” Zelenski wrote today at the Telegram after meeting with his government officials.
The Ukrainian president added that the head of the Ukrainian delegation will again be the Minister of Defense Rustem Umero, as well as in the first round of negotiations in May.
Volodimir Zelenski has listed Ukraine’s positions on talks which are a complete and unconditional ceasefire, the release of prisoners, the return to Ukraine of children who, as Kiev accuses Moscow, have been abducted by Russia.
And, “in order to establish a credible and lasting peace and to ensure security, prepare a meeting at the highest level.”
The Russian delegation departed
At the same time, Sunday afternoon it became known that the Russian delegation departed for Constantinople.
According to the Turkish Foreign Ministry, the meeting of Russian and Ukrainian delegations was set at 1pm local time (2.00 pm Greece) at the Ciragan Palace.
