““The Security Service of Ukraine perceives such statements exclusively as an attempt by the enemy to justify its own failure in front of the domestic audience””, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
This is how the SBU press service reacted to the words of the director of the FSB of Russia, Oleksandr Bortnikov, who accused the special services of Great Britain of carrying out “acts of terrorism and sabotage” on the territory of Russia under their “patronage”, and stated that the British special services oversaw the operation of the Security Service of Ukraine “Web”, as a result of which Russian soldiers were destroyed or damaged in early June planes at several airfields.
“The Security Service of Ukraine perceives such statements exclusively as an attempt by the enemy to justify its own failure to the domestic audience. After all, thanks to the employees of the SBU and their work, the myth of the “omnipotence of the FSB” crumbled right in front of our eyes and burned together with the planes of the Russian strategic aviation,” reads the statement, which is at the disposal of Radio Liberty.
Earlier today, the head of the FSB of Russia, Bortnikov, said that the British special services oversaw the operation of the Security Service of Ukraine “Web”, in particular, according to him, they allegedly “provided its further propaganda support, throwing falsehoods into the mass media about the allegedly huge damage and exclusively Ukrainian authorship of sabotage.”
Bortnikov did not provide evidence to support his words.
On June 1, Ukrainian drones attacked several Russian military airfields at once with drones: in the Irkutsk, Murmansk, Ryazan and Ivanovo regions. The Security Service of Ukraine noted that as a result of the operation, 41 aircraft of the Russian Federation, or 34% of its entire strategic aviation, were affected. Among them are the Tu-95, Tu-22M3 and Tu-160, with which the Russian army fired at Ukrainian cities, as well as A-50 reconnaissance aircraft.
Andriy Kovalenko, Head of the Center for Combating Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine clarified that 13 planes were destroyed and “even more” were damaged. Based on satellite images, OSINT analysts calculated that only at the Bila airfield in the Irkutsk region, eight aircraft were hit: four Tu-95 bombers and the same number of Tu-22s, and at the Olenya airfield in the Murmansk region, drones hit five aircraft each: four Tu-95 aircraft and one An-12.