How Ukraine pulled off ‘Operation Spiderweb’ deep inside Russia

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  On Sunday, Ukraine launched a giant drone attack deep inside of Russia.

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  Here's the sound of a video shared by Russian locals in the Irkutsk region.

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  It captures part of the attack.

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  The operation was codenamed Spiderweb.

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  It took 18 months to plan, and it was supervised,

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  personally, by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.

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  The Ukrainians smuggled hundreds of drones into Russia.

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  Then they deployed the weapons, striking four Russian air bases.

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  There were no reported casualties, but the damage to Russia's arsenal was massive.

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  The attack was one of Ukraine's biggest and deepest against Russia

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  since the war began three years ago.

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  And they did it just a day before planned peace talks.

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  From the newsroom of The Washington Post, this is Post Reports.

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  I'm Elahe Izadi.

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  It's Monday, June 2nd.

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  Today,

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  Ukraine Bureau Chief Siobhan O'Grady joins me from Kyiv to explain how Ukraine pulled this off and whether this attack could change the balance of power in the war.

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  Hi, Siobhan.

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  Thanks so much for joining me today.

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  Thanks for having me.

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