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On June 1, 2025, Ukraine launched its longest-range drone strike of the war, destroying 41 Russian aircraft across four air bases and causing $7 billion in damage. The attack, using 117 drones hidden near Russian bases, was described by war bloggers as “Russia’s Pearl Harbor.” It came just before U.S.-brokered peace talks in Istanbul, amid escalating attacks from both sides, according to Cybele Mayes-Osterman of USA TODAY. President Zelensky called it a major success, while President Trump criticized Putin’s aggression and warned of stalled negotiations. She writes:
Ukraine destroyed dozens of enemy bombers using a horde of drones smuggled deep into Russia in a stunning attack Russian war bloggers are calling Moscow’s Pearl Harbor. It was the most damaging Ukrainian attack on Russia in the three years since Moscow invaded.
Ukrainian intelligence said the coordinated strikes on June 1 took a $7 billion toll on Russia’s military and demolished more than a third of Moscow’s strategic cruise missile carriers, including planes cabable of carrying nuclear warheads. […]
“We hope that the response will be the same as the US response to the attack on their Pearl Harbor or even tougher,” Russian war blogger Roman Alekhin wrote on Telegram, comparing the Ukrainian strike to the 1941 Japanese raid on a US base in Hawaii.
“It is impossible to restore these losses,” Rybar, a pro-Kremlin Telegram channel, said. […]
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