Ukraine officials claimed they wiped out dozens of nuclear bombers and other aircraft on air bases deep inside the country in what pro-Moscow military bloggers called “the Russian Pearl Harbor,” the New York Post reported on Sunday (June 1).
The attacks took place one day before the two countries were reported to potentially discuss cease-fire talks backed by the United States in Istanbul. Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) carried out the attacks using first-person-view (FPV) drones to strike 41 Russian heavy bombers and other warplanes at four different airfields within the neighboring country.
The cost of the destroyed aircraft, which was made by Russian manufactures no longer in existence, is estimated to be about $7 billion, according to Kyiv officials. The Russian nuclear bombers destroyed in the attacks were reported to have been designed to obliterate the United States and Europe in the event of an all-out war, according to the New York Post.
Ukraine officials claimed that the Kremlin aircraft was converted and being used to pummel its country with cruise missiles since the invasion launched by Russian President Vladimir Putin in February 2022. Kyiv officials claimed to have destroyed more than one-third of Russia’s strategic bombers, which included TU-95 “Bear” nuclear bombers, TU-22 “Backfire” fast-attack bombers and A-50 “Mainstay” command-and-control jets, during the mission.
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