Inside Ukraine’s daring drone attack on Russia

乌克兰对俄罗斯的大胆无人机袭击

World in 10

2025-06-02

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Over the weekend, Ukraine launched an audacious drone attack deep inside Russian territory. After 18 months of planning personally overseen by Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine smuggled drones across the border and launched them from hidden containers with remote-controlled lids. Kyiv says it damaged a third of Russia’s strategic bombers. The Times’ World Affairs Editor Catherine Philp says it is an effective strategy as well as symbolism - and looks at how Russia will react. The World in 10 is the Times' daily podcast dedicated to global security. Expert analysis of war, diplomatic relations and cyber security from The Times' foreign correspondents and military specialists.  Watch more: www.youtube.com/@ListenToTimesRadio  Read more: www.thetimes.com  Picture: UNPIXS Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • Welcome to The World in 10.

  • In an increasingly uncertain world,

  • this is The Times' daily podcast dedicated to global security.

  • Today with me, Laura Cook and Tom Noonan.

  • Over the weekend,

  • Ukraine launched an audacious drone attack deep inside Russian territory.

  • For the last year and a half,

  • President Volodymyr Zelensky has personally overseen Operation Spider's Web,

  • a secret plan to destroy Russia's strategic bombers.

  • Hundreds of drones produced in Ukraine were smuggled across the Russian border in lorries and then kept at secret locations.

  • They were launched from containers with remote-controlled lids to target Russian airfields.

  • That includes in Belaya, 2,600 miles away from the front line in Ukraine,

  • in Siberia, near the Russian border with Mongolia.

  • Ukraine's intelligence service, the SBU,

  • says 41 long-range bombers were destroyed, 34% of Russia's fleet.

  • To help verify those claims and work out what happens next is our guest today,

  • The Times' World Affairs Editor, Catherine Philp.