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Are the surprise airfield attacks a turning point for Ukraine?
BBC News ^ | June 4, 2025 | Paul Adams

Posted on 06/04/2025 4:30:40 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Three days on, and Ukraine is still digesting the full implications of Operation Spider's Web, Sunday's massive assault on Russia's strategic aviation.

On Wednesday, the agency which orchestrated the attack, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), released additional, vivid footage of the attacks in progress, as well as tantalising glimpses into how the whole complex operation was conducted.

Satellite images that have emerged since Sunday, showing the wrecked outlines of planes sitting on the tarmac at the Olenya, Ivanovo, Dyagilevo and Belaya airbases, also help tell the story of the operation's unprecedented success.

For Ukrainian observers, the whole operation, a year-and-a-half in the making, remains a marvel.

"This can be considered one of the most brilliant operations in our history," Roman Pohorlyi, founder of the DeepState, a group of Ukrainian military analysts, told me.

"We've shown that we can be strong, we can be creative and we can destroy our enemies no matter how far away they are."

It's important to note that almost all the information that has emerged since Sunday has been released by the SBU itself.

Flushed with its own success, it is keen to cast the operation in the best possible light. Its information campaign has been helped by the fact that the Kremlin has said almost nothing.

Speaking to the media on Wednesday after handing out medals to SBU officers involved in the operation, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky repeated the claim that 41 aircraft had been damaged or destroyed.

"Half of them cannot be restored," he said, "and some will take years to repair, if they can be restored at all."

Had a ceasefire been in place, he added, Operation Spider's Web would not have happened.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Ukraine
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1 posted on 06/04/2025 4:30:40 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

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2 posted on 06/04/2025 4:33:48 PM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Putin will NOT be dishonored. I hope he drops a low-yield NUKE on Zelenskyy’s HEAD.


3 posted on 06/04/2025 4:33:54 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

It has no real effect on the current war. Russia will continue on and work around the loss.

The biggest beneficiaries may be the other countries Russia will want to attack in the future, because they have fewer load-carrying planes to work with.


4 posted on 06/04/2025 4:37:59 PM PDT by ChronicMA
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To: MinorityRepublican

If such an attack worked in a totalitarian state like Russia, how well could it work in a free society? I hope were working on a defense against this.


5 posted on 06/04/2025 4:40:49 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (The DemocRATic party is a treasonous America hating cult.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

pretty sure Putin thinks a line has been crossed.

I am likely not Putin, or even a former us VP but if I were I would think that.


6 posted on 06/04/2025 4:42:31 PM PDT by algore
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To: MinorityRepublican
Why were there tires on the wings of those planes? Were they even real planes?

I can hardly wait to have it FReepsplained to me how it's normal to place tires on the wings of military aircraft that may be called upon to take off at a moment's notice. ,,

Who wants to go first?

7 posted on 06/04/2025 4:42:39 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

I won’t be surprised if Vlad does exactly that.

The American “statesmen” who facilitated this, have put their own country at risk by helping Ukraine to attack Russian assets that are covered by the SALT and START treaties between the US and Russia.

IMO they’re guilty of treason.

JMHO though. They can’t be punished as traitors and spies until after the fair trial.


8 posted on 06/04/2025 4:44:32 PM PDT by OKSooner (Always carry. Even if all you can handle is a .22, carry it. You might be surprised.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

No.


9 posted on 06/04/2025 4:44:57 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Dogs are with us briefly. Politicians last on forever. Listen to your dog. )
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To: ChronicMA

The BBC is laughable. The Uke op was a success but it has no impact on the eventual and inevitable outcome.


10 posted on 06/04/2025 4:44:58 PM PDT by iamgalt
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To: MinorityRepublican

They probably are “a turning point for Ukraine”

Just not the way the BBC mean it.


11 posted on 06/04/2025 4:45:57 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Now we know what all those drones were doing in North Jersey. They were launched out of modified tractor trailers to avoid detection. False ceilings in the trailers that retract and launch the drones.

DARPA- Defense contractors shenanigans.....

12 posted on 06/04/2025 4:47:40 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Dogs are with us briefly. Politicians last on forever. Listen to your dog. )
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To: OKSooner

Elements of the US military are carrying out kinetic activity in opposition to the foreign policy of the United States.

This is the biggest crisis since 1861. Maybe the biggest ever.


13 posted on 06/04/2025 4:48:21 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I think the punk, mini-dictator will have his miniature balls blown off regardless of the 490 million Canada and the scandinavian countries send him:
https://news-pravda.com/ukraine/2025/06/04/1396992.html


14 posted on 06/04/2025 4:50:49 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: MinorityRepublican

Wait until you get to the Find Out part.


15 posted on 06/04/2025 4:52:01 PM PDT by McGruff
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To: iamgalt

My guess is that it’s a NATO op. Meant more to weaken the Ruskies nukes rather than aid the Ukarainans. If you wanted to help the war effort you’d aim at manufacturing facilities.


16 posted on 06/04/2025 4:54:03 PM PDT by kaintucky
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To: Jim Noble

“Elements of the US military are carrying out kinetic activity in opposition to the foreign policy of the United States.

This is the biggest crisis since 1861. Maybe the biggest ever.”

That is a fact sir. And those who argue against this fact are actively part of this operation.


17 posted on 06/04/2025 4:54:17 PM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: Jim Noble

Yes...

Golly gosh, it’s like there’s a secret, shadowy government within the US government, and a secret, shadowy military within the US military...

Oh dear heavens, how can it ever get straightened out?


18 posted on 06/04/2025 4:54:54 PM PDT by OKSooner (Always carry. Even if all you can handle is a .22, carry it. You might be surprised.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

It was a Doolittle Raid.

It was not the Firebombing of Tokyo.

The first was not repeatable for a long time. It was a one-off. It was dramatic and imaginative. But if it is not repeatable, it will not have long term impact.

If they can do it multiple times, in multiple places…then Russia will start to bite their fingernails.


19 posted on 06/04/2025 4:55:16 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: MinorityRepublican

“Are the surprise airfield attacks a turning point for Ukraine?”

Based on what Trump said today, it’s a safe bet that Ukraine will be finding out that the term “turning point” has more than one meaning.


20 posted on 06/04/2025 4:56:11 PM PDT by BobL
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