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‘He’s a bulldog’: the man behind the success of Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb

Vasyl Malyuk, who hailed giving Russia a ‘slap in the face’, has scored a series of high-profile successes as head of SBU

The Guardian - UK · Jun 6, 2025

Inside Ukraine’s remarkable drone attack

You can generally tell when Vladimir Putin appears rattled by an adverse event in his war on Ukraine. He (or one of his proxies) ramps up the bloodcurdling rhetoric. And so it is with Ukraine’s “Spiderweb” drone attack on four airbases inside Russia, which reportedly destroyed or damaged as many…

The Conversation · Jun 5, 2025

Ukraine's drone attack on Russian air bases is a lesson for the West on its vulnerabilities

Ukraine said its “Operation Spiderweb” attacked Russian warplanes worth hundreds of millions of dollars, utilizing drones that each cost under $1,000 and were launched from wooden containers carried on trucks

The Independent UK · Jun 5, 2025

Ukraine war briefing: Satellite pictures show Russian warplanes prey to ‘Spiderweb’

Ukraine damages Kerch bridge with massive underwater explosion; Medvedev signals peace talks are not genuine. What we know on day 1,197

The Guardian - AU · Jun 4, 2025

Ukraine hits Putin’s bridge to Crimea with underwater bomb attack

Kyiv has carried out extensive attacks on Russian targets hundreds of miles from the frontline as peace talks have stalled

The Independent UK · Jun 3, 2025

Ukraine strikes Kerch bridge in Crimea with underwater explosives

Kyiv has hit the Kerch bridge in Crimea, illegally built by Russia after the unilateral annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula. Ukraine’s Security Service released the video of the attack, showing the explosion underwater.

Euronews · Jun 3, 2025

Ukraine’s underwater explosion attack on Crimean Bridge caught on camera

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The Independent UK · Jun 3, 2025

Ukraine hits bridge linking Crimea to Russia with underwater explosives

Operation ‘severely damaged’ base of Crimean bridge, opened by Putin in 2018, Kyiv’s SBU security service says

The Guardian - UK · Jun 3, 2025

Watch moment Russia’s Crimean bridge blown up in huge explosion by Ukraine forces

Video footage has captured the moment a bridge linking Russia and Crimea is blown up in a huge explosion carried out by Ukraine’s special forces.

The Independent UK · Jun 3, 2025

How will Ukraine’s attack on Russian bombers affect the war?

An unprecedented assault on the eve of negotiations aimed at ending the conflict weakens Russia’s image, observers say.

Al Jazeera · Jun 2, 2025