The targets were Russian warplanes, including strategic bombers and command-and-control aircraft, worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The weapons were Ukrainian drones, each costing under $1,000 and launched from wooden containers carried on trucks.
Soldiers use drones to fire on Russian positions May 23 from a shelter in Kostyantynivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine. Ukraine used drones June 1 to carry out “Operation Spiderweb,” which attacked expensive Russian warplanes.
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Drones are prepared to be fired at Russian positions May 23 at a shelter in Kostyantynivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine.
A truck that was apparently used to launch Ukrainian drones is shown June. 1 in Irkutsk, Russia.
This satellite image shows damage from a Ukrainian drone attack at the Belaya Air Base on June 4 in the Irkutsk region of eastern Siberia, Russia.
Plumes of smoke are seen June 1 rising over the Belaya air base in eastern Siberia after a Ukrainian drone attack.
Photos: More than 200 Ukrainian POWs have died in Russian prisons
An injured Ukrainian soldier who was a prisoner of war is placed on a stretcher after being returned to his home country by Russia, April. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Halyna Hryhorieva of Pyriatyn, Ukraine, shows her tattoo of words often spoken by her husband, who was a prisoner of war in Russia: "Everything will be all right," on March 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)
A portrait of Serhii Hryhoriev, a Ukrainian prisoner of war who died in Russia, is seen next to his grave in Pyriatyn, Ukraine, March 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)
Forensic workers at a morgue in Kyiv, Ukraine, collect a pendant with an image of St. Nicholas that belonged to the body of a Ukrainian soldier, June 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)
A forensic worker in Kyiv, Ukraine, examines the body of a prisoner of war repatriated by Russia, June 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)
Forensic workers at a morgue in Kyiv, Ukraine, examine the body of a Ukrainian prisoner of war returned by Russia, June 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)
Workers change clothes at a morgue in Kyiv, Ukraine, June 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)
FILE - Ukrainian soldiers sit in a bus in the Sumy region of Ukraine after returning from captivity in Russia, May 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
Fingerprints taken from the body of a Ukrainian prisoner of war returned by Russia, at a morgue in Kyiv, Ukraine, June 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)
FILE - A Ukrainian soldier shouts, "Glory to Ukraine," after returning from captivity in Russia, in the Sumy region of Ukraine, May 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Halyna Hryhorieva, left, and her daughter, Oksana Hryhorieva, pose for a portrait in their house in Pyriatyn, Ukraine, March 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)
Halyna Hryhorieva, the wife of Serhii Hryhoriev, a prisoner of war who died in Russia, sits at home in Pyriatyn, Ukraine, March 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)
A portrait of Ukrainian soldier Serhii Hryhoriev, who died in Russian captivity, is displayed in his family's house in Pyriatyn, Ukraine, March 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)
Oksana Hryhorieva of Pyriatyn, Ukraine, shows a video of her father, Serhii Hryhoriev, from when he was a prisoner of war in Russia, March 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)
In Pyriatyn, Ukraine, Oksana Hryhorieva, left, and her mother, Halyna Hryhorieva, visit the grave of Serhii Hryhoriev, who died as a prisoner of war in Russia, March 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)
Associated Press writer Hanna Arhirova in Kyiv, Ukraine, contributed.
