Belaya airbase. Photo: Chris Biggers. Details: Judging by the images, four Tu-22M3 bombers and three Tu-95MS bombers were likely destroyed during the operation.In addition, one Tu-95MS was ...

Russia attacked Ukraine with Tupolev Tu-95 (code-named Bear) bombers which are even able to carry four powerful nuclear bombs ...

The airfields targeted included Belaya in Irkutsk, some 4,500 kilometers (2,800 miles) from Ukraine’s border with Russia, and the Dyagilevo base in Ryazan in western Russia, ...

The Belaya air base in Irkutsk Oblast, more than 2,500 miles from Ukraine's border, bore the brunt of the assault. Ukrainian intelligence reported the destruction of at least 13 aircraft across ...

Beyond Belaya, the operation known as Spiderweb, which was over 18 months in the making, struck three other airbases across Russia: Olenya in the Murmansk region, Dyagilevo in the Ryazan region ...

Satellite images of the Belaya airfield in Irkutsk region shows the military base before and after the Ukrainian attack on Russia’s bombers. via REUTERS. 5.

One of the airbases that was hit, Belaya, is over 2,500 miles from the Ukrainian border, demonstrating Kyiv's long reach and its ability to slip past Russian defenses.

Radio Liberty journalists have released satellite imagery showing the consequences of Ukrainian drone strikes on Belaya airbase in Russia's Irkutsk Oblast on 1 June 2025. Source: Radio Liberty ...

Ukraine on Friday marked the 82nd anniversary of the Nazi massacre of more than 30,000 people, and many more thereafter, most of them Jews, at Babyn Yar, outside Kyiv, during World War II.