By South Front
In a major escalation, Ukraine on June 1 attacked five air bases deep in Russia where bombers and other strategic aircraft are deployed using FPV suicide drones.
A source in the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) told CNN that the attack targeted the air bases of Olenya, Belaya, Ivanovo and Dyagilevo. The Russian Ministry of Defense later revealed that Ukrainka air base was also among the targets of the “terrorist attack,” which Ukrainian media referred to as Operation Web, or Spider Web.
Belaya in the Irkutsk region is located some 4,500 kilometers from Ukraine’s border with Russia, and Dyagilevo base in the region of Ryazan, which is located in western Russia about 520 kilometers from Ukraine, is a training center for Russia’s strategic bomber force.
Meanwhile, Olenya in the region of Murmansk in the Arctic Circle, is located more than 2,000 kilometers from Ukraine. Ivanovo in the region of the same name, mainly a base for military transport aircraft, is more than 800 kilometers from Ukraine.
The most remote of the bases, Ukrainka, is located in the Amur region, well over 6,000 kilometers away from Ukraine’s border.
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