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Operation Spiderweb
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2025 Ukrainian military operation in Russia
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Vinony's link graph records 603 inbound references to Operation Spiderweb, and connects out to northern front of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Tupolev Tu-22M and eastern front of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The entry is geolocated on the map, across 7 mapped points.
Vinony files it under 2025 airstrikes, 21st-century military history of Ukraine and Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Key facts
- Location
- Olenya , Dyagilevo , Ivanovo , Belaya , and Ukrainka airbases, Russia
- Target
- Russian Air Force
- Date
- 1 June 2025 ( 2025-06-01 )
- Executed by
- Security Service of Ukraine
- Outcome
- 10–11 Tu-95MS and Tu-22M3 destroyed (per The War Zone ) , 20 military aircraft hit, 10 of which were destroyed (per US) , 41 military aircraft hit (per the Security Service of Ukraine ), at least 13 military aircraft destroyed (per NSDCU )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- special operations
- Named after
- spider web
- Country
- Russia
- Location
- Ukrainka
- Image
- 2025-06-01 DroneAttack SBU (Burning Plane).jpg
- Organizer
- Security Service of Ukraine
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- point in time
- 2025-06-01
- target
- Russian Aerospace Forces
- vessel
- FPV drone
- partially coincident with
- 2025 Russia bridge collapses
- Commons category
- Operation Spider's Web
- perpetrator
- Security Service of Ukraine
- cost of damage
- 7000000000
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Encyclopedic overview
Operation Spiderweb (Ukrainian: Операція «Павутина», romanized: Operátsija "Pavutýna") was a covert drone attack carried out by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) deep inside Russia on 1 June 2025, during the Russo-Ukrainian War. The coordinated strikes targeted the Russian Air Force's Long-Range Aviation assets at five air bases — Belaya, Dyagilevo, Ivanovo Severny, Olenya, and Ukrainka — using drones concealed in and launched from trucks on Russian territory.
It was the largest drone attack on Russian air bases up to that point in the war, employing 117 drones, according to Ukrainian officials. According to two US officials speaking to Reuters, about twenty military aircraft were hit in the attack, ten of which were destroyed. Russia confirmed that the attack took place. The operation was notable for its unprecedented geographical reach — spanning five oblasts across five time zones — particularly the strike on Belaya Air Base in Eastern Siberia, where damage was confirmed 4,300 km (2,700 mi) from Ukraine.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Operation Spiderweb” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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7 mapped locations