0:00 Look at what technology has come to. Zchannels have already called it the Russian Pell Harbor. Well, it’s hard to agree with this assessment, of course, because there are nuances, as they say, and we’ll talk about these nuances today . There are big differences from Pearl Harbor. But the fact that this is a black day for the Russian Aerospace Forces, for the Russian military aviation, and in general, probably, for the Russian army, is certain, and this is a great humiliation for Vladimir Putin, because something unprecedented has happened . On June 1, the largest such attack against the strategic aviation of the Russian Federation in the entire history of this aviation occurred. What happened? Well, if we are to
0:45 believe the statements of the Ukrainian side, then the Ukrainians managed to damage more than 100 aircraft at four air bases in different parts of Russia using drones. This is the Murmansk region, Olenia airbase. This is the Irkutsk region, the Belaya airbase, this is the Ivanovo region, the Ivanovo base, and the Ryazan region, the Dyagelev base. And the A50 aircraft were damaged. This is a flying radar, a rare aircraft, there are very few of them in Russia. And some of them had already been damaged before. And here's another one damaged. Tu95 and Tu-22M3. German military analyst Julian Röbke assesses what happened this way. He
1:31 writes: "This is the largest attack ever carried out against Russia's strategic armed forces." The pictures show numerous Tu-95 strategic bombers on fire. The Russian response will likely be devastating, he suggests. There are big doubts about the forty planes . Well, for example, uh, even Ukrainian sources, independent sources, for example, the Ukrainian, uh, channel, uh, osintanalytics, that is, analysts on open data, which are called days about osint, writes that they were able to confirm damage to only eight aircraft. Ah, so, well, probably 40 is still a very high estimate. Here Ukrainian journalists claim that Ukrainian special services allegedly destroyed up to half of the total number of
2:17 combat-ready units of the strategic aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces in a few hours , but most likely this is a strong exaggeration. But that doesn't mean that something insignificant happened. No, they still happened in an unprecedented way, because the loss of even one or two aircraft, uh, strategic aviation, is a huge event both by the standards of this war and historically in general . And here we are talking about, well, probably about a dozen similar machines. Indeed, this never happened. And this is a slap in the face to Vladimir Putin, a slap in the face to the Russian army, a slap in the face to the Russian air defense, and, well, more precisely, to the Russian counterintelligence. and the FSB, because it
3:06 was impossible, or, in all likelihood, unrealistic, to prevent such an attack with the help of air defense. And this should have been the work of counterintelligence, this should have been the work of the special services, which missed what they missed. We'll talk about what exactly now. And in order to understand the scale of what happened and not exaggerate it, you can simply recall for reference how many similar aircraft Russia has. That is, we know that at least seven Tu-95s and one Tu-22M3 were damaged. Eight aircraft confirmed. At least at the time of recording this video, according to independent Ukrainian sources. And Russia, based on open data, simply what is published on Wikipedia , ah, 58 Tu-95 aircraft and 55
3:52 Tu-22 M3 aircraft. That is, well, not even 10% of the total number was destroyed. The blow is painful, of course, and serious, but still, well, it’s clearly not a catastrophe, and it’s unlikely to have any critical impact on Russian military capabilities. That is, I think that this is, of course, more of a symbolic, very bright, and very effective, I would say, first of all, an ineffective action that will have more political consequences than military ones. I suppose so. We also have to assume that some aircraft may be repairable. Not all of them probably burned to the ground and were destroyed to such a state that they could not be restored. That's why maybe some more will be restored. Unlike other
4:37 similar attacks, this time we know quite well what happened, because we have a lot of interesting footage, and the Ukrainian side quickly, quite openly and in detail told us what this operation was called, how it was prepared and what, in fact, it consisted of. Well, the Ukrainian media, citing the SBU, write that the operation was called Spider Web. It was prepared for about a year and a half under the personal supervision of the country's president, Vladimir Zelensky. Ukrainian media claim that all those involved in organizing this attack have already left Russian territory and are allegedly safe. And it is impossible to arrest anyone there. Well, whether this is true or not is, of course, difficult to verify. Ah, but such a statement. What did the
5:24 operation in Russia consist of? First, specifically to Chelyabinsk, apparently through neighboring Kazakhstan, where there is a border, they first transported FPV drones, then wooden boxes for these drones, for unmanned aerial vehicles. The boxes were placed under the roof of metal containers with opening roofs and transported to the required regions. Some trucks were rented and these containers were installed on the platform . And, apparently, the drivers of these cars and, probably, the owners of these cars, the transport company did not even know what was being transported, that is, they were used blindly. And these vehicles were
6:10 sent on request to points located near the Air Bases. And when they were near the air bases, the lids of the containers were remotely opened, the drones took off and attacked, and the objects that were supposed to attack the military bases. The method is sophisticated. The operation, of course, was fantastically successful and incredibly well thought out, incredibly technological. And surprisingly, of the five objects that were supposed to be attacked, apparently four were successfully attacked. That is, the percentage of effectiveness of the operation is very
6:57 high. Objects were attacked not only in central Russia, but also in the Murmansk region and the Irkutsk region. This is, respectively, 2,000 and 5,000 km from Kyiv. In addition to the four affected areas, there is also the Ukrainka facility in the Amur region. It was also supposed to be attacked in the same way, but the truck with the drones exploded before the attack. Either due to a malfunction, or because it was noticed ahead of time and an explosion occurred. One person is known to have died . By the way, in the first hours it was claimed that the Ukrainians allegedly hit not only aircraft, but also submarines. A number of media outlets reported to the Telegram channel that the nuclear
7:43 submarine base in Severomorsk, in the Murmansk region, allegedly came under attack. But it turned out that there was a mix-up. In fact, the footage shows the aftermath of the strikes on the Olenya airbase in the same region. The Russian Ministry of Defense did not deny that the planes were damaged. Well, it’s impossible to deny, because there are too many shots, too much evidence. And somewhere around the beginning of 7 pm Moscow time they rolled out a statement about the enemy attack, in which there was a lot of such newspeak and, well, the expected dashing, dashing intonation. Let me quote. And Ukraine committed a terrorist attack using a FPV drone against airfields in the Murmansk, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Ryazan and Amur regions. At military airfields in the
8:28 Ivanovo-Ryazan maritime regions, all attacks were repelled. At military airfields in the Irkutsk and Murmansk regions, after an attack on a drone, several aircraft units caught fire . The fires have been extinguished. There were no casualties among military or civilian personnel. But the Z-channels, which naturally write a lot about all this, are today demonstrating a rare unanimity for themselves . Almost none of them try to somehow dispute or downplay the scale of what happened. For example, Roman Alekhine, a major Z author, called the enemy attack on four air bases the Russian Pall Harbor, and his colleague Alexei Zhivov the worst day since June 22, 1941. And this Russian Pearl Harbor somehow went viral, a very vivid image, and, well, it creates
9:14 some kind of associations. You know, why we liked this channel, I think, because the Americans, as we know, entered the war after Pearl Larbor , yes, before that they didn’t want to fight there for a long time. Well, the Japanese attacked them, they entered the war, and this largely predetermined the course of the Second World War. And in this Russian Paul Harbor there sounds like a hope that Russia somehow still doesn’t fight, because it seems like it does n’t want to, yes, really fight. More precisely, she fights, but she does not win, because, so to speak, she does not want to. And now some kind of appleboro is going to happen. We were dealt such a demonstrative and painful blow. And now, how will we start the war and how will we defeat the Japanese, yes, apparently, our version of the Japanese, perhaps with the help of nuclear weapons, as the Americans did, these are the
9:59 associations that are read, but we will talk about that below. L Harbр - this is or is not L Harbor. And there is a Z channel called Fighter Bomber, which specializes in aviation. And he states that the failure of the Russian country is precisely that it lost containers with drones. And according to the blogger, at the X hour, when, in fact, everything happened, nothing could be done. Drones were used from the shortest distance. Naturally, it was impossible to remove the aircraft from the attack , as well as to use the S300 armored vehicles against them, and so on. But, by the way, why can’t you use shells, to be honest, I don’t really understand. To me, the armor, including, as far as I know, is intended for close combat, and, including, for
10:45 shooting down drones. Ah, but here for some reason they either weren’t there at these airbases, or they couldn’t, uh, counter these drones, or they turned out to be ineffective. Ineffective, in general, but I'll quote Fighter Bomber like this. Surprisingly, neither tires, nor airplanes drawn on concrete , nor Jedi swords, nor pvnns - these are air observation posts, every 100 m did not save the planes. Today will later be called a black day for Russian long-range aviation. And the day is not over yet. The air base personnel were put on alert. But I can’t really imagine what he can do now with such drones . Count, perhaps. And a photo report, of course. Well, some of his colleagues in the shop are struck by impotent anger. For example, the author of the channel "Voevody Broadcasts" suggests shooting
11:30 500 Ukrainian prisoners on camera after what happened. There are a lot of shots of this attack. And some of the most striking ones are of someone watching, maybe also a truck driver, well, judging by his comments, maybe a truck driver, filming these drones flying out of the trucks. Here, in fact, we can directly see how it happened. Well, and enjoy the comments. Here he is, the smokebird, taking off again. It's not clear where it's taking off from . Here he is, the clown. Both. Out of the blue, [ __ ]. Both. Well, that's it. What technology has come to. But in other shots, uh, truckers who were standing near the city of Usoliya Sibirskaya, right next to this Belaya airbase, and they were trying to somehow neutralize them and
12:16 shoot them down with something. Either throw stones, or something like that. Well, it's not very clear in the footage, but you can see that they are trying to do something. And it is claimed that the Siberians allegedly actually managed to shoot down several drones and reduce the damage to the Whites. Well, the quality of the footage is very poor, so it's hard to tell if that's true. The American publication EXOS reported that, a, the Ukrainians allegedly warned the Donald Trump administration about the attack on June 1 . And in the same message, Axios reminds that the Ukrainian side does not intend to withdraw from the negotiation process with Russia. Sent a delegation to Istanbul headed by Defense Minister Rustem Umerov. Moreover, the announcement that Ukraine was continuing negotiations with Russia and sending its delegation followed exactly after these attacks
13:02 took place and became known about them. That is, it was some kind of specific mockery on the part of the Ukrainians. We have dealt you another painful, humiliating blow and are ready to talk to you further. Let's talk now, so to speak. As far as is known, this attack on the airbases did not cause any civilian casualties . At least we do n't know about the military and, perhaps, we won't find out, because the military department usually hides such, uh, data about such victims, but at the same time, uh, on Sunday night there were two more major railway accidents in the frontline regions of Russia. Near Bryansk, after a road bridge collapsed onto the railway tracks, a passenger train that was heading to Moscow derailed. And in the Kursk
13:47 region, a railway bridge collapsed under a freight train . Seven people died and dozens were injured as a result of these incidents . And the Russian Investigative Committee classified these incidents as terrorist attacks. The Ukrainian side did not take responsibility for these two train crashes, but admitted that on the night of May 31, it blew up a freight train near occupied Melitopol. At the time of recording this video, Vladimir Putin had not yet commented on the sabotage near Bryansk and Kursk, nor on the attacks on Russian remote airfields. We know that usually at such moments Vladimir Putin prefers to remain silent for a little while and wait until, so to speak, passions subside. Well, in general, he doesn’t like to associate himself with defeats, he likes to
14:33 associate himself with victories, so, most likely, he will wait for a pause. Well, and probably there will be some kind of Russian response, most likely in the form of new fierce missile and drone strikes on Ukrainian territory. After which Putin will be able to speak, but not in such a humiliated form as if he were speaking today. Now. What conclusions can be drawn from this story? Well, the first thing I want to say is, of course, of course, this is not the Russian Pero LHbor and not the new June 22. Why? Because Russia did not face foreign treacherous aggression, as happened to the Soviet Union on June 22 and as happened to the United States during Pearl Larbor. No, this is not aggression from another country. This is an unexpected turn of the war, which was treacherously unleashed by Russia at the time
15:21 . Of course, this attack is a humiliation for Vladimir Putin on the eve of a new round of talks in Istanbul on June 2. Ukraine has demonstrated that it can still inflict extremely painful blows on Russia in its deepest rear and undermine Russia's military potential. Tu-95, Tu-22, M3 are strategic bombers. This is part of the Russian nuclear triad, and strikes on them not only reduce Russia's military potential in terms of strikes on Ukraine now in this war, and the Tu-95, as far as we know, are actively participating in military operations against Ukraine, launching missiles of various modifications,
16:08 in general, well, this includes a strike on aircraft that are directly bombing Ukraine, so Ukraine is thus defending itself. But it is also a blow to Russian nuclear forces. And this is a reduction in Russia’s military nuclear potential . Or it may be a symbolic abbreviation, but at the same time it is symbolic and very symbolic. And, of course, there are other ways to deliver nuclear weapons today. And strategic bombers are far from the most modern and effective. There are also a variety of missiles, and there are nuclear submarines. And it cannot be said that by depriving ourselves of these bombers, Russia’s nuclear potential will somehow, well, seriously suffer. No, that's probably not true. But nevertheless, at this level of
16:53 symbols, the level of gestures, this is a very striking, very unpleasant step for the Kremlin. How will Russia respond other than striking Ukraine? Well, we can assume that a witch hunt will begin now, a search for suspects will begin, and the first to be targeted will probably be the truck drivers, the owners of the companies that own these trucks, those who were involved in renting these trucks, who provided them, and so on. In general, remember what happened with the Crimean Bridge, yes, when it was blown up there. Then they arrested and still hold behind bars some rather random people who owned rented cars, who had no idea what was being transported there, and so on, who, well, maybe showed some, well, I do n’t know, inattention,
17:38 carelessness, but, in general, these are people without epaulets, who were not obliged to show this attentiveness and foresight. In fact , in theory, the Russian counterintelligence agents who overlooked these trucks somewhere, slept through them, looked through them, didn’t understand what was happening, didn’t see it, should be held responsible for what happened on the Russian side. Here. Well, I think that the first ones to answer will, of course, be some scapegoats, maybe even those guys who tried to knock down the copters with stones. Maybe they were, maybe they were Russian soldiers who were filming the aftermath of these explosions, like this soldier. There might be that truck driver who commented on how these drones take off, yes, it will turn out that it was forbidden to film it , it is forbidden to post it, so the
18:24 person must answer before the law. I think some kind of witch hunt is about to start. Well, we should certainly expect all sorts of tightening in the area of freight transportation. Everyone will now be tested 38 times. All this will become much more complicated, more expensive, and bribes will increase. In general, those who are engaged in cargo transportation, I think, will face various troubles and difficulties. Then, well, it must be acknowledged that drone warfare is reaching a new level. Once again, we have a situation where, well, fairly cheap devices, these drones, are causing damage to extremely expensive things, such as strategic bombers. There were estimates that Russia allegedly suffered losses of approximately 2 billion dollars from these attacks. The cost of these
19:11 drones is, well, probably hundreds or thousands of times less. Maybe 2 billion is an exaggeration, of course, but nevertheless one can imagine how much tens or hundreds of millions of dollars are worth. Possibly one Russian strategic bomber. We see that the Russian special services and military are still unable to close either the borders of Russia. And no point on Russian territory, well, perhaps with the exception of Vladimir Putin’s residence, can be considered safe. Even the deepest rear, Siberia, the Far East, the Far North, all these points are subject to Ukrainian attacks. No one can feel safe anywhere. Remember, Vladimir Medinsky said during the negotiations that Russia was ready to fight as long as necessary, he
19:57 recalled the Northern War and said that Russia was ready to fight for 20 years. Well, this is a peculiar response from Ukrainians . And, probably, a proposal to think about it for the residents of Russia, and they are ready to live for 20 years, but in such conditions, yes, in a situation when a drone can fly anywhere, when trains are derailed, when airfields explode, when drone attacks constantly interfere with civil aviation, interfere with normal life. Well, you can think about whether you want to live in such conditions for 20 years. And in conclusion, you know, I’ll say a little something personal. When I was a child, I dreamed of becoming a military pilot. I think it’s good that I didn’t,
20:43 because on February 24, 1922, I would have had to either abandon my life’s work or become an accomplice to a major war crime, aggression against a peaceful neighboring state. But nevertheless, I was interested in airplanes, read a lot about them, studied them, and this topic is not completely alien to me, not completely distant. And somewhere I continue to love this topic. And when I see footage of Russian military planes burning at airfields , well, that child inside me, who read about these planes, who loved them, I was so proud that his country had such a powerful air force. This child inside me is upset. Well, an
21:29 adult looks at these planes and understands that many of them, perhaps these particular planes, flew, launched missiles that fell on Ukraine, not only on military facilities, but also on peaceful cities, killed people, innocent people, killed children. And of course, an adult doesn't feel sorry. If I can express my grievance and complaint to anyone, it is to Vladimir Putin, who took and used, among other things, Russian strategic aviation, which should be used as an instrument of deterrence, as a force that prevents us from being attacked, as something that protects us and should never be
22:15 used. This is a weapon that should lie there and simply by its existence protect our country. These weapons were taken and used to launch strikes, non-nuclear, conventional strikes, against Ukraine. So we are reaping the fruits of the seeds that were sown in 2014, 2022, that we continue to sow and sow and sow and sow. Here are the shoots and maybe even some flowers. And the berries will come later.
