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    Russian air force suffers devastating blow it will not recover from. The loss of strategic missile-carrying bombers destroyed or damaged today is a blow Russia will not be able to compensate for, according to military analyst Oleksandr Kovalenko.  Today, Russia lost over 40 aircraft, either destroyed or damaged, including valuable strategic bombers of various types. The Ukrainian strikes hit four military airfields, including the Olenya airbase near Murmansk and the Belaya airbase in Irkutsk Ob
     
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Ukraine destroys strategic bombers Moscow cannot replace

Par :Olena Mukhina
1 juin 2025 à 15:33

Russian air force suffers devastating blow it will not recover from. The loss of strategic missile-carrying bombers destroyed or damaged today is a blow Russia will not be able to compensate for, according to military analyst Oleksandr Kovalenko. 

Today, Russia lost over 40 aircraft, either destroyed or damaged, including valuable strategic bombers of various types. The Ukrainian strikes hit four military airfields, including the Olenya airbase near Murmansk and the Belaya airbase in Irkutsk Oblast.

The unique feature of this operation was that the drones didn’t fly from Ukraine, instead, they were transported by truck closer to the targets and launched from minimal distance. They were controlled by artificial intelligence, which selected targets autonomously.

Kovalenko stresses that aircraft like the Tu-95MS, Tu-22M3, and Tu-160 are no longer manufactured in modern Russia. What Russian propaganda calls “new” aircraft are merely refurbished Soviet-era units.

“To this day, Russia has not produced a single brand-new Tu-22M3 or Tu-160 from scratch — only reassembled legacy models from the Soviet era. In fact, everything that was damaged or destroyed today is beyond restoration and certainly can’t be replaced by new production,” Kovalenko says.

The loss of the Tu-160 is especially painful for Russia. It is the most expensive and unique aircraft in the Russian Aerospace Forces, a true “unicorn,” as Kovalenko puts it.

“Sadly, it’s not the last unicorn. If there’s a true last unicorn, it would be the A-50 early warning aircraft. I think even more spectacular news about that might be coming soon!” he adds.

Earlier, Ukrainian journalist Yurii Butusov said the Security Service smuggled 150 small strike drones and 300 munitions into Russia, 116 of which took off during the latest operation against Russian aircraft.

At least 150 AI-guided Ukrainian drones strike 41 Russian aircraft in historic truck-smuggled strike

Control was conducted via Russian telecom networks using auto-targeting.

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