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Kyiv’s much-publicized “Spiderweb” operation, targeting Russian long-range aviation bases, has fallen far short of the spectacular results claimed by Ukrainian officials. While the attack demonstrated Kyiv’s ability to pose threat to strategic facilities deep in the Russian rear regions, newly released satellite imagery reveals that the actual damage was heavy but minimal, contrary to Ukrainian propaganda portraying the operation as a decisive blow to Moscow’s strategic capabilities. LINK, LINK
Ukrainian intelligence services described the attacks as the culmination of an 18-month preparation, deploying drones from disguised civilian trucks to strike five strategic airbases in Olenya, Dyagilevo, Severny, Belaya, and Ukrainka. Initial reports from Kyiv boasted of destroying or damaging over 40 aircraft, including Tu-95 and Tu-22M3 strategic bombers—a claim that, if true, would have represented a significant degradation of Russia’s long-range strike capacity.
Satellite Imagery Tells a Different Story
Recent high-resolution satellite images of the targeted bases, however, paint a far less dramatic picture. At Dyagilevo airbase in Ryazan region, where Ukrainian sources claimed successful strikes, no damage to aircraft or infrastructure is visible. The only notable marks are minor scorch patterns on the ground, likely from intercepted drones. Similarly, imagery from the Ivanovo airbase shows no significant impact, despite Ukrainian assertions of heavy losses. Russian aircraft are seen covered with tyres undamaged.
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The most substantial confirmed damage was confirmed at the Belaya airbase in the Irkutsk region, where up to eight bombers (four Tu-95MS and four Tu-22M3) were reportedly hit. Yet even here, satellite analysis suggests that the worst-case scenario—a mass destruction of Russia’s nuclear-capable fleet—was avoided. Nearby Tu-160 bombers appear untouched, and the full extent of damage remains unclear.
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Western propaganda also shared the low-quality imagery of the Ukrainka airfield in the Amursk region, claiming damage to at least one more Tu-95MS, but this claims are not reliable, since the quality does not confirm them, and the trucks with FPR drones reportedly burnt down before reaching this airbase.
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Ukrainian Propaganda and Fabricated Evidence
Kyiv’s narrative has been further undermined by blatant disinformation. Social media channels circulated AI-generated footage purportedly showing destroyed MiG-29 and MiG-31 fighters—a crude fabrication easily debunked by experts but widely shared to create the illusion of Russian vulnerability. Such tactics, increasingly reliant on AI, aim not to convince the experts and military reporters but to manipulate public perception through rapid, emotionally charged dissemination.
A Tactical Strike, Not a Strategic Victory
While the attacks demonstrated Ukraine’s capacity to penetrate Russian defenses at extreme distances, the actual military impact was marginal. The gap between Kyiv’s claims and verifiable results underscores a broader pattern of exaggeration—a psychological operation designed to sustain Western support rather than deliver decisive battlefield effects. As the war continues, the disparity between Kyiv’s narratives and ground realities grows ever more apparent.
think back to the hare and the turtle – slow and steady wins the race. big, flashy moves full of hype won’t win the game. they’re just trying to make you react too strongly so they can twist it against you. they don’t care who dies – even their own civilians. so let’s stay calm and keep chipping away at their strength.
wrong. kiev is slowly degrading russian capabilities. on the other hand, nato has not been hit at all and can continue this indefinitely.
face it, russia was stupid to trust the west with the start treaty, demanding that those bombers be left out in the open as easy targets.
the one that is attrited is ukraine with millions of people dead, crippled or just gone away. nato can’t do shit because if they intervene it’s nuclear war and being ‘not being hit’ won’t matter a bit.
also the us is leaving because it need to pivot to china and cannot continue to spend military equipement in a lost cause. quite the contrary of ‘continue this indefinitively’. and nato arsenals have being emptied and now they rely on empty threats and terrorism.
nato has been participating from the start, they provide all the weapons, money, satellite data, drone and surveillance plane data etc. moscow likes to pretend to avoid doing what needs doing.
instead of acting like they are at war moscow worries about supplying oil and gas to nato, that is the kind of nonsense going on in moscow.
yet it is the west that is supposedly having an economic blockade of russia. it just shows who is dependent on who. it is the west that is quite stupid by giving russia the means to continue its war. not that will bother you, you genocide fan boy.
nato provides a lot of things that ultimately proved futile. the point is it cannot directly fight russia without destroying itself. now it is at the very end of what it can do, and is starting to squeal.
have you heard of diplomacy? if russia acknowledged the nato proxy war, that nato and us politicians have confirmed, then what happens next? working as they do, russia is exposing it all to the world as they take the russian sections of ukraine back under russian control, with minimal fatalities of ukrainians.
there are a teeny-weeny illogic in kill one million ukrainans for something “us” has done, especially when similar things have happen for hundreds of years. i cant wait for to see how they shall get everything to fit in the end !
americunt vanya humiliated–nato exposed as paper tiger by russia
moscow should hit 40 nato bombers just for the sake of tit for tat.
possibility, that whilst russia is still weighing up all the facts, it still might lead to a nuclear war. especially if president trump knew about what was planned. that would mean the us declaring war on russia, by targeting russia’s nuclear deterrant system. why was the us defence secretary watching it unfold? why was lindsey graham, blumenthal, pence and pompeo in ukraine, giving speaches around the time this all kicked off?
the devil think he is smart 😂 get all “satan” missiles airborne, or continue to kill neo-nazis and darwins mercenaries, and put the country on war feet. you have traitors running around.
wow the copium, all nato has been disarmed, impoverished in this war, russia is stronger and richer lol
this has inside job finger prints . russia must have zionist banker mafia agents inside it’s boarders to do this propaganda stunt . to be a friend of israel is deadly .
imho swallow much jew jizz in her americunt ghetto
u dumb americunts swalloww too much kosher jizz
really? how many nato special forces serving in ukraine either as mercenaries on vacation from their primary job, or working as military instructors are now rotting in the gates-beyer-monsanto compost?
and these neo nazis want a ceasefire,ridiculous,smh 🤦
the russians are the delusional ones always wanting to negotiate, what is there to negotiate about?
suppose the russians have to put on a show to their nato partners so they can continue to sell gas and oil in american currency that gets confiscated anyways by the hundreds of billions.
vanya the mi6 agent is always pissed at russia for supposed relation with the west it is at war against, but never pissed at the west for their support or terrorism or genocide.
mranwhile zelensky as commander in chief holds the responsibility for the death of at least one million of his countrymen and the total destruction of his countries infrastructure. all for his piano pounding ego.
optics. russia is showing willing and following international law, despite all provocations. then when the gloves come off, russia has a lovely audit trail, showing that she tried looking for a peaceful finale.
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yes sure …
natostan is doomed as is the entire eussr and the evil anlozionazi empire of shit. thank you russia for destroying anglozionazi fa$cism yet again. however, this time it must be pulled out by the roots.
crimea bridge is getting boom boom putin is a cuck
no it’s not : it’s another failure of ukraine. everything ukraine and nato does just turn to shit. even their insults are quite weak.
okay expert
the bridge is still standing.
standing strong 🥰
just like denys davidov on youtube this is childish🤡
nafomosexuals and ukretards flailing again. it’s not ol’ clyde’s fault that you bought the silly us story of the failed ukrainian cia project
the allies can hit russia anywhere anytime…just wait until nukes are put on the drones…heheheh
we are going to be waiting for a long time. nato leaders are quite stupid but they won’t destroy their own country for shitty ukraine, that’s for sure.
starting to look like nato can do whatever it wants via their ukrop front
and that is why it is now screaming/whining/squealing for a ceasefire. that is the smell of defeat.
do not be to sure. “us” have tension the spring in the clock work, like in the finance of nazi germany from family bush. now they only have to commit a slow suicide for their master, like germany and ukraine.
lol, what drones are nuclear capable?
the us smallest nuclear bomb weight is 23 kg. it’s called w54. it was equiped on portable rocket system called davy crockett m338. it was banned after the non prolifération treaty.
you mean, it was banned when the lie about its existence become obsolete. but, cadavers which walk have stand for about 5000 years, only 80 years for “nukes”. this will be boring 😑
the critical mass for plutonium 239 is 10 kg. it can be less than 10 with berillum deflectors
have you test “nine eleven” by run into the kitchen wall head first ? you cant test “nuclear weapon” in the kitchen, still you believe in a mentally disturbed “jew”, einstein, with a “theory” that demands two clocks to both get slower than the other at the same instant.
i wonder if the russian nuclear bomber fleet is even a relevant delivery system . missiles and submarines have replaced airplanes in many scenarios . i dismiss the propaganda
what matters is what happens on the battlefield: 2000 afu kia daily🥶
you can keep spinning the attack as a failure for the stupid people.
fact is that it was a huge success and showed russia that they are not as superior as they want people to think.
and it shows that kiev is far from beaten.
no matter how much land they take, nato will still be on their doorstep.
if russia wasn’t a zionist stooge, they might would have a chance.
if that is a huge success, ukraine better surrender now. any success would have at least some effect on the current war but this clearly wasn’t able to. also the terrorist attacks that kiev launched is quite the indication of weakness and desperation. winners don’t need to attack civilians.
ukraines goal is to do damage to russia while going down. not to survive not to save its people just to hurt russia in preparation of a nato attack. thats why they are attacking the nuclear triad after allready attacking the early warning radars. they are not doing it for themselves but for their masters.
if that is a case, it is a monumental failure. not only is the russian army much more efficient and deadly and its economy stronger, but damaging a few airplanes is in not going to affect its nuclear deterence one bit. nato cannot directly engage russia without destroying itself in a nuclear war, or else they would already be in ukraine.
nato thought they could remove russia from the global equation, leaving china alone. first by threatening by using ukraine, then they expected the economic or political side (regime change) to play in their favor. now they are stuck in a war they are losing 50 to 1 with all the credibility consequences that this will have.
russian doctine, diplomacy, economy, and army are all a sad joke unfortunately
absurd statements from an mi6 agent or affiliated that has no bearing on reality. nato is losing 50 to 1, and that will have quite an impact on its credibility (more than it does now).
just don’t cry when russia retaliates.
lets hope we all don’t go into a coma first.
you have some time left to stuff some nato c*cks in your mouth in the meantime.
the stunt shows nothing about the state of the failed ukrainian cia project.
do you plan to do anything against the genocide of the jews ? else those photos could as well be from a scrap yard, which i suspect it is, in reality.
they are not photos, they are generated by artificial stupidity. no airforce on the planet stores aircraft like that, even in a scrap yard. and that plane with two noses is amazing, i didn’t know they made them like that……
glaas over kiev already. it’s time to make war on the natostan fascist filth.
the factors ukraine have proven that nowhere is safe in russia. some billions of dollars damage was done and russia have lost that which will need maybe 2 years to replace the lost aircraft. reputation will never be restored as russia is now seen as weak and almost defenseless. russia seem to be begging for peace now and if nsto create a no fly zone over ukraine it will be over for russia.
you have to wonder where these nato propagandists find these ridiculous ideas. they just don’t know if russia has some of these bombers mothballed somewhere. a handful strategic bombers in a faraway landing strip doesn’t change anything for the war in ukraine. nato losing 50 to 1 against nato will have credibility consequences. it is nato that is demanding a ceasefire.
the russian troll working for cents
so says the nafo/project alchemy/integrity initiative/statecraft troll.
i think russia is perfectly content to continue to pummel ukraine until it is a threat no more, as was stated is its intention.
the russians have no ability to make aircraft like that, it would take the russians no less than 15 years to design and produce similar aircraft, judging by their post soviet track record it might take 20-30 years. they are having great difficulty making a mid size passenger jet and a small single engine aircraft with 100% domestic parts.
except they are producing tu-160m2 right now. believe the bs of nato/propagandists that are willfully completely ignorant at your own risks.
not forgetting, the few mothballed planes that were damaged, will soon be fixed and they still have around 60 others to carry out tasks. just in that class of aircraft.
remind me, how long did it take the us to get the f35 into active service? remind me, but, does the us still need the russian space rocket engines to get their astronauts into space? remind me, how long did it take for russia to design and build the kerch strait bridge? or get it up and running, following each of the 3 ukrainian strikes on the bridge?
piecelickcock deported by zelensky to west virginia–dumb hillbilly swallow too much mulattojizz
ukros chupadores e engolidores de porra
slurping jizz makes moron delusional–former ukraine loses territory daily
if these were american planes i would agree, the yanks pay almost a thousand dollars for a toilet seat (for taking military grade dumps, no doubt). russia built almost 500 tu-22s and the same number of tu-95s – most of which are almost as old as i am (and that is saying something). they can always put the fuses back in another batch – or order more tu-160s from mr. tupolev (he would like that very much). the yank hardware the houthis shot down was worth more than this exercise.
this was just an early warning and around 10 planes hit out of 900+ bombers is nothing🤫 and nato targets and arms factories in all european cities can be hit with missiles anyway. btw nuclear subs can destroy the pentagon, aircraft carriers and other stuff around the world🍿🥤🍿
where did ukraine get the cost figures from? 9 aircrafts, that were launched back in the 50s? in the meantime, how much did operation spiderweb cost and how long did it take put together? just to take out 9 mothballed planes? 3 airfields escaped out of 5. 2 airfields suffered minimal loss. would not call that a success, considering the time and money spent on the exercise, would you?
the working slave cast believe stronger in something, as more enslaved it gets by it. you understand that your zeros are created by a parasite which can write as many he wants in a computer, and then kill you with a trick movie, by use your emotions ? it should not surprise me at all, if the “nuclear weapons” get destroyed as slowly as the smo. “sorry, they are gone” 🤡
the problem is that the high russian command think that they are in military drills and not in a war vs nato ( using ukraine as a pawn), roads near the air base shoul be controlled by police and trucks inpected, survillance drones monitoring all around, platton of soldier armed with shotguns protecting planes….
the air bases where the attack had some success were the ones on the other side of the country. it is certainly a lack of imagination that ukraine would go that far away to make a point or two (those bombers weren’t used on ukraine). the russia military seems quite apt at adapting to changing conditions. i think ukraine will have difficulties repeating this one of attack.
this video was generated by ai
you mean the video from the attack ? please inform us ! the video from “nine eleven” was generated by a idiot, i suppose they have move on to ai now.
it was not an idiot but it had to be done fast from a helicopter. the images were on cnn within 20 minutes we know who did it🤫
oh, yes, it was a idiot which makes videos for idiots. its directly from walt disney 🤡
the video above, for example, the position of the aircraft, engines
breaking news ? that one looks like a wet dream from a scrap yard. i agree that its normally better order on a airfield…
is that the video on 9/11 that the bbc showed, 20 minutes before it actually happened? was it building 7?
that one are also funny 😂 no, its the video with a “airplane” which defy newtons laws, and only melts into the steel and betong structure, without any damage at all. this is in class with the russian bird in “donald duck bird watching” 😂 i had several gb with material from the towers and pentagon on my server.
either that or orkrainans managed to take out top secret tri-jet variants of the flanker as well as a few other interesting oddities.
leaving such high value military assets out in the open on full display to spy satellites during wartime is very poor planning by the russian military when camo netting suspended over simple frames could have protected them from both satellite observation and from drones.
it is/was a necessity of arms control between superpowers for them to be able to control the number or emplacement of strategic bombers. no more, or course. as usual, the west lead us to a more dangerous place where they become more and more blind.
the planes that were hit were probably donor planes
it does appear that newly coined russian red lines are just posturing as this brazen attack on the last line of defence clearly demonstrates. not only did russia fail to protect their apparently deterrence force, but it also did not reply to the attack. if these drones were carrying nuclear warheads, they would have crippled russia.
strategic bombers are the least of a nuclear deterence and the first to be gone probably in case of nuclear war. a few of them destroyed is a hit but far from a crippling blow. some reply has already been done, as it seems some senior officers from nato and ukraine tried to catch a kinzhal in sumy. you won’t hear of that in the western media of course.
dismissing the significance of this attack is a dangerous denial at one’s peril. after the loss of syria i thought they made a deal with us, of course this attack just proves that being impossible.
what deal ? the us and its puppets are on a global crusade to try to retain their grip on the world. we are already in wwiii. do not expect them to suddenly have a change of heart and be reasonable. all we can hope now it that they will be defeated without it turning into a nuclear war.
you do not understand me. its impossible to make any deal with “us”. its like trying to make a deal with a poisonous snake, or a lizard. the eventually non-existance of “nuclear weapon” can be a heritage from very sick germans imported to “us”. it could sink the psychopaths ruling. try to understand a world ruled by trick movies, for heavens sake !
so. russia has missiles now. planes are so 60’s.
planned and executed by ukraine, just as they claim for the nord stream etc? somehow i don’t think so. chances are britain, france, germany are heavily involved in this attack… awaiting confirmation….. then…
inferior americunt species tantrums at sf—stupified immoral primitive idiots desperate to find agreement from another feminized coward americunt
the oink oinks and their westoid handlers are looking for the next sugar high. this one already worn out
senile vanya americunt hillbilly cannot find suitable gay mulatto so tantrums at sf
lesson learned. no longer will russian jets be parked in the open as targets for enemy attacks.
out of curiousity i would be interested in how much ukraine and friends of ukraine have lost, courtesy of the latest pr scam? the western media might believe it is a miracle, but, what do the nations outside the west view it all? trump is desperate to talk to xi, but, does xi want to talk to trump? that is for starters.
all of nato’s weapons have been destroyed in ukraine along with many of its top officers and trainers. where have you been living? under a rock? they and us still don’t have hypersonics. however the iranians have them.
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have look at video in another place, a fighter pilot send it. it do not look real. it give some impression of flight simulator, i played some (much) with microsofts first version from wwii. could be camera used, but very sceptic.