{"id":343,"date":"2025-06-03T02:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T22:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/ukraines-drone-strike-isnt-just-an-attack-its-first-person-warfare\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T02:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T22:10:07","slug":"ukraines-drone-strike-isnt-just-an-attack-its-first-person-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/ukraines-drone-strike-isnt-just-an-attack-its-first-person-warfare\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine\u2019s drone strike isn\u2019t just an attack \u2014 it\u2019s first-person warfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An image showing Ukranian drones\" data-caption=\"Russian Governor\u00a0Igor Ivanovich Kobzev shares an image of the strike\u2019s aftermath in the Irkutsk region. | Image: Telegram\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Telegram\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/ukraine-aftermath.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>Russian Governor\u00a0Igor Ivanovich Kobzev shares an image of the strike\u2019s aftermath in the Irkutsk region. | Image: Telegram<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Ukraine launched a surprise attack on Russia that targeted more than 40 of the country&rsquo;s military aircraft on Sunday. The mission, called Operation Spiderweb, involved sending 117 drones over Russia&rsquo;s borders and into several of its airfields. It was the Ukrainian military&rsquo;s longest-ranged attack yet, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, but it also pulls back the curtain on an elaborate campaign to put raw footage of the strike in front of a global audience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Within just hours, three videos of the strike spread from Ukraine&rsquo;s federal security agency to a journalist based in the country, later spilling into social media and news outlets worldwide. The videos appear to be filmed from the perspective of a drone, complete with an overlay of information about the drone&rsquo;s telemetry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1JlQLewOAmA?si=VwH5t6HTz7_0dSyk&amp;t=22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In one video<\/a>, the drone flies over an airfield, passing clouds of dark gray smoke billowing from multiple warplanes. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/LttMM_NA2FM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Another clip<\/a> apparently captures the moment a plane explodes into a tower of flames. The third shows a drone descending toward an aircraft, with the video suddenly freezing and displaying the message \u00ab\u00a0Warning no data\u00a0\u00bb upon reaching the plane. The Ukrainian government would later repor \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/politics\/678329\/ukraine-drone-strike-attack-videos-social-media-russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Governor\u00a0Igor Ivanovich Kobzev shares an image of the strike\u2019s aftermath in the Irkutsk region. | Image: Telegram Ukraine launched [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ukraine-aftermath-Mh534l.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}