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Monday, June 02, 2025

The covert operation was described as one for the "history books" by Ukraine's president. In the span of a few hours on Sunday, nearly a third of Moscow's strategic bomber fleet was destroyed or damaged with cheaply made drones sneaked into Russian territory, according to Ukrainian officials. e undertaking by Ukraine's Security Service, codenamed "Spiderweb," involved more than 18 months of painstaking planning and great risk. It was personally overseen by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

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Ukraine takes out 1/3 of Russian nuclear bombers.

When is the White House going to say "Thank you"?!

#1 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-06-02 10:26 AM | Reply | Funny: 4

Slava Ukraine!

They left Krasnov Fats out of the loop on this since giving him any warning of this would be like calling Putin and telling him directly.

The US is no longer the leader of the free world. We are on our own. It will come back to hurt us before these four years are over.

#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-06-02 10:31 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Volodomir Zelensky has certainly pissed off Putin and Trumpf. NATO is quite pleased and will thank Kiev quietly. Xi Jinping must be shaking his head ruefully.

youtu.be

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-06-02 10:35 AM | Reply

The planning for Operation Spiderweb began 18 months ago, so the Ukrainian secret services kept this hidden from the USIC when Joe Biden was in office. Good for them; trust no one. And unlike the Russians, the Ukrainians limited the risk to civilians.

#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-06-02 10:46 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Ukraine takes out 1/3 of Russian nuclear bombers.
When is the White House going to say "Thank you"?!
#1 | Posted by Sycophant

LOL! Trump thanking anyone for hurting Russia. Good one!

#5 | Posted by censored at 2025-06-02 11:13 AM | Reply

Russia and Ukraine reach deal on new POW swap and handover of bodies
www.reuters.com

... Russia and Ukraine said they had agreed at peace talks on Monday to exchange more prisoners of war and return the bodies of 12,000 dead soldiers.

The warring sides met for barely an hour in the Turkish city of Istanbul, for only the second such round of negotiations since March 2022.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan described it as a great meeting and said he hoped to bring together Russia's Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskiy for a meeting in Turkey with U.S. President Donald Trump.

But there was no breakthrough on a proposed ceasefire that Ukraine, its European allies and Washington have all urged Russia to accept.
Moscow says it seeks a long-term settlement, not a pause in the war; Kyiv says Putin is not interested in peace.

Kremlin aide Vladimir Medinsky said Russian negotiators had handed their Ukrainian counterparts a detailed memorandum outlining Moscow's terms for a full ceasefire.

Medinsky, who heads the Russian team, said Moscow had also suggested a "specific ceasefire of two to three days in certain sections of the front" so that the bodies of dead soldiers could be collected.

Each side said it would hand over the bodies of 6,000 dead soldiers to the other.

In addition, they said they would conduct a further big swap of prisoners of war, after 1,000 captives on each side were traded following a first round of talks in Istanbul on May 15.

Ukrainian Defence Minister Rustem Umerov, who headed Kyiv's delegation, said the new exchange would focus on those severely injured in the war and on young people.

Umerov also said that Moscow had handed a draft peace accord to Ukraine and that Kyiv - which has drawn up its own version - would review the Russian document.

Ukraine has proposed holding more talks before the end of June, but believes that only a meeting between Zelenskiy and Putin can resolve the many issues of contention, Umerov said.

Zelenskiy's chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, said Kyiv's delegation had requested the return of a list of children who it said had been deported to Russia. ...



#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-06-02 01:17 PM | Reply

Steve Bannon rushes to condemn Ukraine, a country fighting for its very existence: x.com

When will Bill Maher or Joe Rogaine follow suit?

#7 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-06-02 01:29 PM | Reply

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