Posted on 06/01/2025 4:36:07 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
An audacious Ukrainian drone attack against multiple airbases across Russia is a humiliating security breach for Vladimir Putin that will doubtless trigger a furious response.
Pro-Kremlin bloggers have described the drone assault - which Ukrainian security sources said hit more than 40 Russian warplanes - as "Russia's Pearl Harbor" in reference to the Japanese attack against the US in 1941 that prompted Washington to enter the Second World War.
The Ukrainian operation - which used small drones smuggled into Russia, hidden in mobile sheds and launched off the back of trucks - also demonstrated how technology and imagination have transformed the battlefield, enabling Ukraine to seriously hurt its far more powerful opponent.
Moscow will have to retaliate, with speculation already appearing online about whether President Putin will again threaten the use of nuclear weapons.
"We hope that the response will be the same as the US response to the attack on their Pearl Harbor or even harsher," military blogger Roman Alekhin wrote on his Telegram channel.
Codenamed 'Spider's Web', the mission on Sunday was the culmination of one and a half years of planning, according to a security source.
In that time, Ukraine's secret service smuggled first-person view (FPV) drones into Russia, sources with knowledge of the operation said.
Flat-pack, garden-office style sheds were also secretly transported into the country.
The oblong sheds were then built and drones were hidden inside, before the containers were put on the back of trucks and driven to within range of their respective targets.
At a chosen time, doors on the roofs of the huts were opened remotely and the drones were flown out. Each was armed with a bomb that was flown into the airfields, with videos released by the security service that purportedly showed them blasting into Russian aircraft.
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This occurred right after Senators Lindsey Graham the Democrat Senator left The Ukraine.
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Vlad has shown much restraint…at this point he may as well ditch his SMO and declare war….which would be very, very bad for all the EU and western countries that are supplying Ukraine with weapons.
That’ the ticket, vatnik. USA must have done it! Lindsey must have planned it! Bet he even piloted the drones!
This occurred right after Senators Lindsey Graham the Democrat Senator left The Ukraine.
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Like Boris Johnson torpedoing the first Peace talks in Istanbul?
Secondly, there is no question that Russia going to unleash hell on Ukraine. Almost anything Russia does short of dropping nuclear weapons will be justified. And, that is very bad news for Ukraine.
“Vlad has shown much restraint”
1 million dead or injured Russkies, mass destruction of their armed forces, loss of their Black Sea fleet flagship (not to mention they can’t even safely traverse the black sea anymore), loss of their client state Syria since they were unable to reinforce him, loss of their Syrian port and their access to Africa, crossing all nucelar red lines like Bugs Bunny dozens of times, but NOW VLAD IS FINALLY GONNA GET SERIOUS!
Such is the logic of the demoralized Red Diaper “Conservative” Baby.
You cannot be serious. The only “restraint” Vlad has shown is not to use nukes which would bring his end in a matter of hours. And also something that no military has done since Nagasaki. Nukes are for existential threats and nobody is threatening to destroy Moscow.
Of course Putin will respond but he has plenty of Ukraine civilian targets to attack with conventional forces. If he had decent generals he would be doing something besides WW I style warfare.
Ukraine is releasing the videos of the planes being demolished, and all the Russkies are pissed and calling it Russia’s Pearl Harbor.
So, yeah, it happened Vatnik.
Putins Russia is in its final stages.
The ease with which Putin’s inner most security was penetrated is proof of this.
A coked out tiny dancer was able to determine Putin’s exact location in which helicopter he was in.
You mean like the West’s Shock and Awe? Destroy all water supply, electricity, waste treatment, food, communications, etc…? …and Yes, he certainly does have the capability.
Just imagine the destruction that 300,000 chicom students and 45 million migrant invaders (which includes at least a million moslems) will do in this country, probably very soon...
It will be a lot easier job in the U.S. than in Russia...
Think of millions of shipping containers lying around, supposedly empty...
If the WH cannot protect against leaks of important information, it sure cannot protect against chicom and moslem attacks...
MR, tell us how this will help YouCrayne retake Territory that Russia now controls.
This is going to have disastrous results!
You are a victim of western MSM, Ghost of Kiev, washing machine chips, a million dead Russians, out of missiles and ammo any day, fighting with shovels in meat wave attacks, etc, etc….you are funny.
Seems to me he got pretty serious the last time this happened.
How'd that Kursk invasion by the Ukies turn out?
Wonder why we don't see any more headlines about that one that started with claims the Ukies were marching to the nukeie power station and on to Moscow.
Uh?
Yup, Putin may get mad and decide to break numerous treaties by invading a neighboring country and seizing its land...
Bold move. Best of luck to them dealing with the consequences.
Please leave us out of it.
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