New satellite images show the extent of the destruction against one fleet of Russian bombers during Ukraine’s “Operation Spider Web” attack on the Kremlin’s air bases over the weekend.

The images, shared by open source analysts, show nothing but dust and debris where more than a dozen of Russia’s nuclear-capable bombers once stood on the runway at the Belaya airfield, one of at least four military bases struck by 117 Ukrainian drones on Sunday.

John Ford, a research associate at the California-based James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, said the images supplied by Capella Space, a satellite company, confirm Ukraine’s achievement in destroying the fleet based in the Irkutsk region. 5

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The SAR images showed the remnants of at least two Tu-22 Backfires — the same

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