"The main problem in our relations with the Americans is that they, for some reason, believe that we have already lost the war. And, based on this assumption, they want to help us get the mildest terms for capitulation. And they are deeply offended that we do not appreciate these efforts. We, of course, do not appreciate it because we do not think that we have suffered any defeat. And so we go around in circles with the Americans."
How convincing are these words of a high-ranking Ukrainian government official, given to the BBC Ukrainian editor a few weeks ago, after June 1, 2025, and the largest operation of Ukrainian secret services on Russian territory since the beginning of the war. The aforementioned quote is a harsh and sobering message, first of all, to the aggressor, Putin, who, according to the Ukrainian military, lost a third of the most important part of the air war armada in one day, primarily long-range missile carriers. And then, along with Putin, his brother in autocracy, Trump, was humiliated! The American president looked ridiculous because his months-long claims that Ukraine "does not have a winning card in its hands", and that it has "only six months left", because "Russia cannot lose in any way" fell flat!
And then we watched "Spider's Web," about which Ukrainian security expert Serhiy Kuzan says that "something like this has never happened before in the history of warfare" and that "something like this will hardly happen again" in the future.
"Russia only has 120 strategic bombers capable of attacking us from long distances, and we hit and damaged 40 of them today. That's an incredible number," Kuzan concludes.
Perhaps Zelensky, who is now being praised in Ukraine as the "drone king," is exaggerating when he says that Putin's armada suffered seven billion dollars in damage, but even if it wasn't that much, he has a right to do so. Because Ukraine was attacked, with the aim of occupying and erasing it, of erasing the Ukrainian name, nation, language, culture, church, democracy... It sounds familiar, so now that it is evident that Putin's goal has failed, Zelensky can now celebrate.
The BBC notes that the operation, regardless of the numbers, had a "spectacular psychological-propaganda effect." It quotes Ukrainian military blogger Oleksandr Kovalenko as saying that the impact of Operation Spider's Web is enormous even if not all of the Russian bombers in question were completely destroyed. "Because the scale of the damage is such that the Russian military-industrial complex, in its current state, will probably not be able to rebuild them for decades," Kovalenko concluded on his Telegram channel.
One reason for this claim is that the strategic bombers and missile carriers in question, the TU-95, TU-22 and TU-160, are no longer in production. "Their repair will be difficult, and their replacement impossible," Kovalenko said. He stressed that the loss of the TU-160 supersonic bomber, which he described as "a unicorn in the herd," is particularly painful for the Russians.
The BBC also quotes well-known Ukrainian military journalist Ilya Ponomarenko, who reminds Xu of Trump's meeting with Zelensky in the Oval Office, with an ironic and somewhat triumphant conclusion: "This is what happens when a proud nation under attack does not listen to those who convince it to surrender, and when we see that Ukraine still has some cards in its hands."
Today, as this text is being written, a new round of negotiations on a possible ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine is beginning in Istanbul. With Zelensky now, as the "drone king", in a much more favorable position. Both in relation to Putin and in relation to Trump.
The Russian dictator is struggling to explain to his own people the fact that the drone attack was carried out in 4-5 different parts of Russia, deep inside the territory, and far from the border with Ukraine. The unfortunate people will ask Putin how Ukrainian intelligence agents infiltrated Russian territory for months, along with equipment, preparing to drill through Putin's air force like Swiss cheese.
It will not be any easier for his friend Trump, the American autocrat, to explain to the opposition and independent media how he has been repeating for months that Ukraine has no cards in its hands and that it should surrender. And to entrust him, the master of negotiation, with an agreement with Putin on the conditions for Ukraine's capitulation! Some kind of "Kumanovo agreement". With the difference that in Kumanovo the aggressor country, Serbia, capitulated, and according to Trump, the attacked country, the victim country, Ukraine, should have surrendered here.
A good lesson for our Excellency from the President of the country. And his coalition comrades. On the Ukrainian example, all those who carry us to Brussels on their backs can see Bosnia from the 90s. It was a victim, an attacked country. And Serbia, Montenegro, and later Tuđman's Croatia, were aggressor countries. So there is no question of a civil war. Because otherwise, Putin's criminal "special operation" could be subsumed under the pretext of a civil war! Within the same people, one country, one church, within the same language, where Putin plays the role of the savior of the region but also the planet from the vampiric Nazism in Kiev, just as Milošević and Bulatović "saved" us from the "vampiric Ustasha" in the 90s. Which Mandić, Joanikije, Knežević and the entire bulumenta from Belgrade, led by the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, repeat and defend today. Just like the weak Jakov. After all the defeats and capitulations, from Kumanovo to The Hague, where genocide was even ruled, and the "heroes" of the then "special operation" were declared guilty of war crimes.
"Absolutely brilliant result. A result achieved exclusively by Ukraine. One year, six months and nine days from the start of planning to successful implementation... Our people who were involved in preparing the operation were withdrawn from the territory of Russia on time. This is an action that will undoubtedly enter history textbooks," Zelensky wrote on X.
Rightly so, one would say, because reports from relevant world agencies and media describe the action of the Ukrainian Security Service as unreal, resembling something that has so far only been seen in American films about espionage and conspiracies. Namely, the SBU first smuggled drones into Russia, and later mobile wooden cabins. Once they arrived on Russian territory, the drones were hidden under the roofs of these cabins, which were mounted on trucks. At the right moment, the roofs were opened remotely and the drones took off to attack the Russian bombers. This version of events was confirmed not only by eyewitnesses, but also by individual governors of the Russian regions on whose territories the attacked airfields were located.
"Ukraine is defending itself, and rightly so - we are doing everything to make Russia feel the need to end this war. Russia started this war, Russia must end it. Glory to Ukraine," Zelensky said the day before yesterday.
Putin and his American patron are on the move. That's why I can't wait to see the outcome of the meeting in the Oval Office between the US president and the new German Chancellor, Merck. I would almost bet that Trump, no matter how vain and unscrupulous he is, would never think to mention, let alone claim, that Ukraine "has no cards" and that only Putin can be the winner. With the famous addition of the war in Ukraine that would not have happened if he, Trump, had been in power in America. Maybe it wouldn't have, but in that case the Russian flag would have been flying in Kiev in 2022. And Putin's tanks would have been on the borders of Poland and its Baltic neighbors. That's why Europe is being defended in this war and that's why - glory to Ukraine. And to Zelensky.
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