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On Sunday, the daring attack of Ukraine drones against Russian aerodromes, including a few thousand kilometers from the front line, was carefully coordinated and executed to send a clear message to Moscow, as well as those who doubt kyiv’s ability to inflict significant damage for more than three years on the invasion of Russia.
Ukraine can put pressure for a ceasefire, but it is far from being ready to capitulate the requests of Russia.
The attack on the eve of peace talks in Istanbul, Turkey, recalled that “we can realize more with a nice word and a firearm than with a nice word,” said Taras Zahorodniy, Ukrainian political expert.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the high -tech operation has been planned for over a year and a half. He has shown that kyiv can successfully launch cheap drones against some of the most precious military assets in Russia: strategic tupolev bombers, which are used to launch guided cruise missiles on the border and can be equipped with nuclear weapons.
It was a cheeky military maneuver which not only rejected the criticisms of American president Donald Trump – who proclaimed in this now famous oval office meeting that Zelenskyy did not “have the cards” to negotiate in the current conflict – but also shown the evolution of war, and the damage that can be inflicted by drones.
“A brilliant operation has been carried out,” said Zelenskyy in his evening declaration, which was released on social networks. “Our people worked in different Russian regions, in three time zones.”
Ukraine claims that 117 drones were introduced as a smuggling in Russia, then hidden in the roofs of wooden hangars and then loaded on the back of trucks.
Yesterday, one by one, they were launched remotely.
Look | Ukraine is launching a swarm of drones on the military targets of Russia:
On the eve of a second cycle of peace talks, Ukraine launched what he calls his longest attack against Russia, using drones to target Russian war planes. Ukrainian authorities have said that they have been planning this for over a year and a half.
Videos circulating on Russian social media have shown that drones take off, while shots were sounding to try to shoot them.
In a video, a few men climbed on a truck trailer and tried to throw rocks on the quadcopters.
Damage complaints not yet verified
It is not immediately known how devastating it was on Russia Air Force. A Ukrainian official initially declared that 41 planes had been affected and that images published by kyiv showed Russian planes engulfed in flames.
On Monday morning, the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine said that 13 planes had been destroyed during the attack and others were damaged.
In a statement, the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed that Ukraine had launched drone attacks against five aerodromes, including one in the Amur region, 5,600 km from the border with Ukraine.
Russia said three of the attacks were “pushed” but that several planes on two bases caught fire. The landing breads were at OLENYA air base, which is above the Arctic circle, and the Belaya base in Siberia, which is more than 4,000 km from Ukraine.
“We expect that, in a day or two, to have high -resolution satellite images of these bases,” said Jakub Janovsky, who is based in Prague and director of the Oryx website, who follows losses of Ukrainian and Russian military equipment.
In an interview Zoom with CBC News, Janovsky described the attack as innovative and said that it highlighted the vulnerability of Russian planes.
Only specific bases can accommodate these war aircraft, and in recent months, Russia has deployed its planes further to stay out of the range of long -range drones and Western weapons, like the Himar systems manufactured in the United States.
The attack attack “ Completely preventing Russia from launching more missile attacks, but Russia will have to be much more cautious and move additional aerial defenses to the rear, “said Janovsky.” It would be an additional pressure on their already stretched resources. “”
Establish a stadium for peace talks
Influential Russian military bloggers call for their country to retaliate.
Meanwhile, in Ukraine, there is a feeling of pride and even joy that it was done just before the second round of peace talks in Türkiye.
The first series of direct negotiations ended in Istanbul on May 16 after only a few hours, Russia still refusing to implement a 30-day ceasefire. Russia had demanded that Ukraine abandon its desire to join NATO and to withdraw its soldiers from four regions that Russia claimed.
The talks on Monday started late and ended after barely an hour. But some Ukrainians believe that Kyiv has already sent his message.
“I would like to see the faces of members of the Russian delegation,” said Ukrainian aeronautical expert Valeriy Romanenko in an interview with Reuters.
“After such a slap in the face, in front of the whole world, how could [Russia’s delegation] Come say, “We don’t want four, but six [Ukrainian] Regions now? ‘”
Glen Grant, a retired British Lieutenant-Colon and Expert to the Defense of the Baltic Security Foundation based in Latvia, has just returned from Ukraine and thinks that drone strikes give the country a much stronger hand in peace talks.
“They will go with a smile on their faces and will not think, hey, we are the losers and we must fight you for everything we can,” said Grant in an interview with CBC News.
It is pessimistic that everything will come out of talks and is concerned about Russian advances through the front line – especially in the Sumy Ukraine region, where Russia says that this weekend, he seized a village five kilometers from the border.
An alarm clock
Grant said he wanted to see if Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is generally silent on military losses, addresses drone attacks.
Ukraine’s strike should not be considered an alarm clock only for Russia, but for governments around the world on the ease with which drones can be deployed, Grant said.
Since dozens of them have been hidden and launched remotely at the back of a transport truck, they could certainly be launched from other vehicles, such as container ships or small boats.
“”[The attack] In fact, shows that the game has fundamentally changed with war, “said Grant.
“It now means that anyone with a yacht can sail in the center of New York and use small drones, which will not be detected, and can try to do something serious.”
