From the New York Times, I'm Natalie Ketrowef.

This is the Daily.

Today, the story of Operation Spiders Webb, an audacious sneak attack by Ukraine that caused billions of dollars in damage to Russian

warplanes, with drones that cost as little as $600.

My colleague Mark Santora explains why this strike is already being seen as a defining

moment in the evolution of modern warfare.

It's Wednesday, June 4th.

Mark, we're coming to you because you are one of the correspondents who has been on the ground for the longest in Ukraine.

You've been reporting from the front lines embedding with the Ukrainian military.

And we now know what happened this past Sunday

was unlike anything we have seen so far in this war.

You and a team of reporters have been working to uncover

exactly what went down, how it went down,

and I want to get to those specifics here today.

But first, can you just take us through the events as you experience them

on Sunday? Sure. So, you know, you get used to a lot of reports of explosions every day here,

whether it's here in Ukraine or something going on in Russia. But on Sunday, around one o'clock,

we started to get these really strange reports of explosions at airfields 3,000 miles from Ukraine.

First we saw reports of explosions at an airfield all the way in Siberia.

And as they started to come in, we started to get videos of how these attacks were being conducted.

And it was really weird looking, right? Because, you know, we're used to long-range

Ukrainian drone strikes going after, you know, Russian targets inside of Russia. But here...

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