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Spiderweb Update: Chinese Satellite Images Show Destroyed Russian A-50 AEW&C
Images published on Tuesday produced by China’s Mizarvision commercial satellite company shows multiple damaged aircraft at Russia’s Ivanovo Severny Airbase.
by Kyiv Post | June 3, 2025, 7:01 pm
Detail from a Mizarvision satellite image of the Severny Airbase in the Ivanovo region that shows three destroyed unknown aircraft and a possibly damaged A-50 AEW&C aircraft. Photo by Mizarvision / Geoint on X
Ukraine’s Security Services (SBU) launched Operation Spiderweb on Sunday, that saw simultaneous drone strikes on five major Russian air bases in Murmansk, Ryazan, Irkutsk, Amur, and Ivanovo regions.
Statements by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and Lt. Gen Vasyl Malyuk the head of the SBU shortly after the attacks claimed to have destroyed and damaged more than 40 strategic aircraft including Tu-95, Tu-22 and other heavy bombers along with an A-50 airborne early warning and command (AEW&C) aircraft. This represented around a third of Russia’s strategic bomber fleet at a cost of more than $2 billion (some estimated as $7 billion).
Almost immediately, in the absence of third-party evidence, Russian official statements and a plethora of analysts and milbloggers, both Russian and international, began to question the figures claimed by Kyiv. However, by Tuesday afternoon evidence in the form of satellite imagery started to roll in and began to provide a clearer picture.
On Tuesday morning the Daily Telegraph, published open-source satellite images that showed a total of 13 destroyed aircraft at Murmansk’s Olenya and Irkutsk’s Belaya airfields – eight Tu-95s, four Tu-22s, and an An-23.
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https://www.kyivpost.com/post/53895
by Kyiv Post | June 3, 2025, 7:01 pm
Detail from a Mizarvision satellite image of the Severny Airbase in the Ivanovo region that shows three destroyed unknown aircraft and a possibly damaged A-50 AEW&C aircraft. Photo by Mizarvision / Geoint on X
Ukraine’s Security Services (SBU) launched Operation Spiderweb on Sunday, that saw simultaneous drone strikes on five major Russian air bases in Murmansk, Ryazan, Irkutsk, Amur, and Ivanovo regions.
Statements by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and Lt. Gen Vasyl Malyuk the head of the SBU shortly after the attacks claimed to have destroyed and damaged more than 40 strategic aircraft including Tu-95, Tu-22 and other heavy bombers along with an A-50 airborne early warning and command (AEW&C) aircraft. This represented around a third of Russia’s strategic bomber fleet at a cost of more than $2 billion (some estimated as $7 billion).
Almost immediately, in the absence of third-party evidence, Russian official statements and a plethora of analysts and milbloggers, both Russian and international, began to question the figures claimed by Kyiv. However, by Tuesday afternoon evidence in the form of satellite imagery started to roll in and began to provide a clearer picture.
On Tuesday morning the Daily Telegraph, published open-source satellite images that showed a total of 13 destroyed aircraft at Murmansk’s Olenya and Irkutsk’s Belaya airfields – eight Tu-95s, four Tu-22s, and an An-23.
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https://www.kyivpost.com/post/53895
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