The surprise offensive carried out by the Japanese imperial Navy against the United States naval base in the morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941 marked the greatest known disaster of Almighty North American Army. He did not see him coming and was developed on the eastern front, with 188 lost aircraft and 2,403 dead military. A blow that forced Washington to enter fully into World War.
Well, with that national catastrophe that deeply shocked the US, the coup that this Sunday gave the Ukraine Security Service (SBU) to Russia,. Moscow also did not see him and has paid it, demonstrating the ineffective of his self -defense and the inability to protect himself away from the battle front. The result is the loss, partial but significant, of its strategic aviation.
It is the Russian defense bloggers themselves who are comparing with Pearl Harbor, so hard that it has been the blow of the so -called Spiderweb operation, that is, cobwebs. As the Ukrainian intelligence services have revealed, the plan, commanded at all times by the president, has taken a year and a half to prepare, has been perpetrated with 117 drones bought by kyiv but sent to Russian soil (with a cost of 430 euros per unit, nothing in matters of armament) and have gone for some of the jewels of the Russian crown: the TU-95 (the great strategic firefighter known as Bear), the TU-22m3 (a long-range supersonic bomber) and the A-50 (its early alert and control plane).
The audacity of his play is such that the Ukrainian press bought it with that of the great blows of the Mossad, Israel’s secret service, as when he attacked Hizbulá in Lebanon through his, last September. A lot of ingenuity, a lot of patience. Ukraine argues that he has compensated to wait because his attacks yesterday caused damage to 34% of the Russian strategic bombers who carried cruise missiles, worth 7,000 million dollars, a fact that has not been possible to verify independently but that, as little, is already a formidable propaganda blow, of which the Ukrainians were very needy and in a key moment,.
“They have already had other notable military successes from the special military operation, such as Russia, such as the sinking of the flagship of the Russian Black Sea, the, and the bombardment of the bridge, both in 2022, plus a missile attack to the port of Sebastopol Huge effect, palpable, now. El HuffPost The Spanish colonel Manuel Gutiérrez.
The details provided by kyiv – that is, only what we let us know – are of fine goldsmith: after 18 months of work, dozens of small drones were illegally introduced into Russia, stored in special wooden compartments aboard load trucks, taken to at least four different places, thousands of kilometers away, and remotely thrown into nearby air bases.
Specifically, it has been beaten in the bases of Bélaya, Diagilevo, Olenya and Ivanovo, which have been seen on fire, although explosions were also heard in places such as the Military Aerodrome of Voskresensk. There are not many details of what happened by the Russian authorities, the Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed that “several planes caught fire” after a drone attack against the bases in the regions of Murmansk and Irkutsk, located in the Russian Arctic and the east of Siberia. The fires were contained, the ministry said, and did not cause victims. Russian Defense also confirmed that drones were not thrown from Ukrainian territory, but “in the vicinity of air bases.” “The suspects have been arrested,” the note deepened. kyiv insists that his people came out on time and is safe.
According to the popular Russian blogger Rybar, who accused his army of “negligence”, kyiv managed to reach 13 bombers: eight TU-95ms, four TU-22m and an AN-12. “It is a tragic loss for the entire Russian air fleet,” he wrote on Telegram.
The system seems like a film: those wooden boxes loaded with drones, carried around the bases by truck drivers who had no idea of the bearing they carried, that at a given time they opened by a springboard on the roof and, from there, the UAV came out, they entered the bases and attacked the planes that rested on the tracks. The dream of the righteous ended in fire. “When Zelenski says that this will be studied in history books is that it is so.”
The system, says the old military, has proven to be “very effective”, because “he has not committed a single plane”, but he still leaves many questions in the air: who has drones the drones? Any pilot who was nearby and has also entered illegally in Russia or a military man who has handled him in the distance, very remotely? Unmanned planes barely have a few kilometers of autonomy, so they had to be strategically located near the bases. Did anyone give them the appropriate information? Have you used any type of artificial intelligence? Why didn’t Russia alert services jumped at any time? Are they not so sophisticated away from the battlefield, are they checked little because they do not fear attacks in the rear, is that they sounded and nobody detected the real danger?
Zelenski has confirmed that the Ukrainians who had to participate in the plan left successfully after the attack, although Russia has spoken vaguely about some arrests. His statement would verify, then, that there have been Ukrainians on the field executing the plan. And that his adversary has not seen them. Or yes?
To the well designed of the barrage is added the really transcendent effect that it has on the invasion of its country. “These strategic bombers are capable of launching long -range attacks against us. There are only 120 and we attack 40. It is an incredible figure,” explained the analyst Serhii Kuzan to Ukrainian public television. It is not yet known if those four tens of airplanes have been completely useless but only that they have to be repaired already implies an “important alteration” of the plans of. It takes time.
The importance of attacked airplanes
The strategic missile carriers in question, the TU-95, the TU-22 and the TU-160 are no longer manufactured, so repair will be difficult and replace them, impossible, explain the Ukrainian military blogger zeksandr Kovalenko in its Telegram channel. The loss of the Tu-160 supersonic plane, he said, will feel especially. “Today, the Russian aerospace forces lost not only two of their most rare planes, but truly two unicorns of the pack,” he writes. The target was a scarce and irreplaceable good. Win win.
Why are these devices so key? It is explained by Gutiérrez: Tu-95 bombers, for example, are the culprits of a large-scale attack with KH-101 missiles against Ukraine earlier this year and have been widely used since the large-scale invasion of February 2022 and, therefore, “are a vital objective for the Ukrainian army.” Each bomber can transport eight guided cruise missiles, and each missile carries a 400 kilos eye, in turn. The scope of weapons is thousands of kilometers, which allows these strategic aircraft to deploy with relative safety within Russian airspace.
Equal significant is the reported loss of an A-50, the Russian equivalent of the AWACS (air control system and airborne alert), whose function is to detect enemy aircraft and missiles and send those objectives to the Russian fighters. He plays a function of management of aerial resources, “providing an overview and an address.”
And beyond the destroyed, there is how: the use of drones in at least one, so close to the objectives, “means that traditional Russian self-defense systems, such as long-range anti-aircraft missiles S-300/S-400, and even their lower scope counterparts, the Pantsir SA-22, are ineffective.” This also means that “there was little warning that such an attack was coming to bring aircraft to the relative safety of reinforced shelters.” “All this, exaggerate or not kyiv achieved, highlights the vulnerability of important military assets inside the Russian Federation itself,” he says. The memes that circulate on Ukrainian social networks attest to the mockery current that has generated the mission 4,600 kilometers from the front line.
And separate physical damage, the web operation sends another critical message, not only to Russia but also to the western allies of Ukraine: kyiv can and has not lost the war. This blow has been carried out without even informing the US authorities, which are squeezing so that the fire with Moscow is achieved, in little advantageous conditions for the invaded. Western armament has not been used, but material produced in the national defense factories, which are surprising the world for the originality of their products, their versatility, adaptation to the battlefield and ingenuity in the face of precariousness.
Ukrainian defense journalist Illia Ponomarenko, in a message on social network X, refers to the meeting between its president, Zelenski, with the American Donald Trump in the Oval Office, last February 28. That humiliation. The Republican said things like “Ukraine only six months left”, “You don’t have letters” and things like that. Ponomarenko shows that things are not like that and yesterday’s attack evidences. It turns out that Ukraine does have some cards after all. So much that the specialist goes further: “Then, if Ukraine’s special services are able to do that, it essentially means that they can kill Putin,” he writes.
Appointment in Istanbul, part II
He momentum Chosen by kyiv is as important as destroyed: the day before the direct contacts with Russia in Istanbul (Türkiye) were retaked today. Until now, Moscow and kyiv have failed to agree even when the arrangement memorandum and the list of conditions for a high fire are exchanged beforehand. , in the first round of these contacts, Putin sent his delegation with the bravuconería that advances on the battlefield. Today the shots have changed: the blow of effect is Ukrainian.
Ukraine sent the conditions, among which, according to the leaks to the press, a high unconditional fire by land, sea and air, and trust measures such as the exchange of all prisoners of war and the return of all children transferred to Russia, which motivated the issuance of an international arrest warrant against Putin. kyiv also requires security guarantees, refuses to be neutral – it can enter NATO if there is a consensus in the block – and discard the imposition of limits to the size of its army, red lines for the Kremlin.
In turn, it admits the possibility of raising international sanctions against Moscow, although only gradually, while frozen assets in the West will be used for the reconstruction of Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Russia maintains its proposals secret and will only present them once today starts the meeting in the Turkish city. Moscow, according to the filtrations to the press, demands that NATO undertakes in writing not to expand to Russian borders, that is, to give up admitting Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova in its bosom.
The Russian ambassador to the UN, Vasili Nebenzia, said that they are indispensable conditions for a cessation of the hostilities that the West suspends the supplies of weapons and that kyiv ceases the mobilization of new soldiers. “If necessary, we will continue fighting as much as it takes,” he warned Friday before the Security Council.
