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Russia’s ‘Pearl Harbor’: What to know about Ukraine’s audacious drone strike

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Ukraine unleashed more than a hundred drones smuggled deep into Russia in what it called its most damaging attack yet.

WASHINGTON − Ukraine destroyed dozens of enemy bombers using a horde of drones smuggled deep into Russia in a stunning attack that Russian war bloggers are calling Moscow’s Pearl Harbor. It was the most damaging Ukrainian attack on Russia in the three years since Moscow invaded.

Ukrainian intelligence said the coordinated strikes on June 1 took a $7 billion toll on Russia’s military and demolished more than a third of Moscow’s strategic cruise missile carriers, including planes capable of carrying nuclear warheads.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the massive attack, which he said used 117 drones, his country’s “longest-range operation.”

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Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/06/02/ukraine-drone-strike-attack-russia-pearl-harbor/83987304007/


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