Spider web operation: In Germany, the damage to the strategic aviation of the Russian Federation was evaluated by 10%

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German Major General Christian Freuding said that the attack of Ukrainian drones on Russian airfields on June 1, probably damaged about 10% of the Russian strategic bombing fleet.

Source: Freuding in Podcast, reports “European Truth” with reference to Reuters

Direct language: “According to our estimation, more than a dozen aircraft, Tu-95 and TU-22 strategic bombers were damaged, as well as A-50 aircraft.”

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Details: According to General, who coordinates Berlin’s military assistance and works closely with the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, affected A-50 aircraft, which operate similarly to NATO aircraft AWACS, providing the air environment, was likely not in working order.

“We believe that they can no longer be used for spare parts. This is a loss, because there are only a few units left such aircraft,” he said.

“As for the farm bombing fleet, we, according to our estimates, was damaged by the attack,” Freuding added.

According to the United States, the bold attack of Ukrainian drones struck up to 20 Russian military aircraft, destroying about 10 of them, reported by Reuters two US officials, and experts say that Moscow would take years to replace the affected aircraft.

Despite the loss, Freuding does not see an immediate decrease in the number of Russian blows in Ukraine, noting that Moscow still retains 90% of its strategic bombers who can launch ballistic and winged missiles in addition to bomb.

“But there is, of course, an indirect effect, since the remaining aircraft will need to take more departures, which means that they will wear out faster, and, most importantly, there is a huge psychological impact,” he said.

Freuding said Russia felt safe in its vast territory, which also explained why the planes were little protected.

“After this successful operation, this is no longer true. Russia will have to strengthen security measures,” the general said.

Prehistory:

• On June 1, the SBU conducted a spider web special operation, which resulted in strategic aviation aircraft at 4 Russian aerodromes.
• The head of the SBU Vasyl Malyuk stated that in total it is “the defeat of 34% of strategic carriers of winged missiles at the main aerodromes of the Russian Federation”. According to the SBU, the estimated cost of equipment affected by the spider web special operation exceeds $ 7 billion.
• NATO called the “web” of the most successful operation – at least 40 aircraft were estimated by the Alliance. 10 to 13 aircraft are completely destroyed.
• President Volodymyr Zelenskyy assured that in this operation the intelligence services used exclusively Ukrainian weapons and did not use equipment from allies warehouses.