News about Ukraine • Russia

The attack. Hundreds of FPV drones surged from the trucks, targeting dozens of Russian aircraft on the ground. On the day of the strike, a hidden mechanism retracted the trucks' roofs, revealing drone launch platforms inside. Source: Social media, Ukrainian Presidential Press Service.

The United States estimates that Ukraine's audacious drone attack hit as many as 20 Russian warplanes, destroying around 10 of them, two U.S. officials told Reuters, and experts say Moscow will take years to replace the affected planes.

They suggest that Ukraine had destroyed at least four Russian aircraft. The images confirm that at least two were Tu-95s and another was a Tu-22. Social media video geolocated by NBC News to Olenya air base shows a man dressed in military fatigues filming a wall of flames also around a Tu-95 bomber.