This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Valerie Sanderson, and in the early hours of Monday the 2nd of June, these are our main stories.

Ukraine launches an audacious drone attack destroying planes on distant airfields in Russia.

Medics in Gaza say they've treated dozens of casualties amid conflicting reports of an

Israeli attack near an aid distribution centre. U.S. police are investigating reports of a terror attack

in Boulder, Colorado. Exit polls from Poland's presidential election suggest an extremely

close race, with the result too close to call.

Also in this podcast, we hear from race gores at a prestigious horse racing event in the United

States. They're tipping, they're spending, they're having a great day. So money come, money go.

A day ahead of planned peace talks in Istanbul,

Ukraine has carried out its most audacious attack yet in the war with Russia,

attacking strategic bombers standing on runways as far away as Siberia and the Arctic Circle.

Ukraine says it's caused $7 billion worth of damages.

In his nightly address, President Zelensky described the military action as absolutely brilliant.

A total of 117 drones were deployed in the operation.

The strikes successfully hit 34% of Russia's strategic cruise missile carriers at their home airfields.

The operation spanned multiple regions across three Russian time zones.

Our personnel operating inside Russian territory were safely extracted

ahead of the assault. Video released by Ukrainian intelligence shows planes catching fire as they're

struck by a wave of small drones in what's been called Operation Spider-Web. For its part, Russia's

Defence Ministry confirmed what it called a terror attack

using drones on five of its airfields

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