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Greetings, comrades, and welcome to the Eastern Border. Well, this episode, as you can see from the title, is dedicated to the operation spider web.

I think it's translated just a spider in some languages, but it's Powitina, which is Spider Web.

So, you know, should be more accurate this way.

However, you probably know all about the main operation itself as it happened.

And, well, I couldn't really release episode in the same day because, well, as usual, every time I actually decided to get some rest,

and this time I was in Maersrax, which is next to the sea, quite far from Riga,

and I was sitting there on the beach, enjoying the summer,

and then my telegram just blows up with all the news about all this operation and explosions and all this stuff.

So I had to wait a bit, but I couldn't be as fast as I possibly could.

So I decided not to give you all the rundowns of what exactly happened, which is, well, in short, of those of you who don't know,

it was basically a planned operation that Ukrainians planned for about a year and a half, where they

launched drones from cargo holds of trucks.

Those, I think there were like containers, the ones that chips used attached to the trucks.

So basically the drones were remote controlled and they damaged Russia's strategic aircraft.

This way.

And while the number is very, we have confirmation of 13.

Ukrainians say it's 40.

It's somewhere between that, I think.

And we don't know how damaged all of them are.

Some of them are definitely destroyed.

Well, let's say it's a massive strike towards the Russian strategic capabilities in this way. Now, the thing is, we have a bunch of

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