Ukraine said the strikes on Russian strategic bombers had caused $7 billion in damage.
"It had an absolutely brilliant outcome," Zelenskyy said.
“It is impossible to restore these losses,” Rybar, a pro-Kremlin Telegram channel, said.
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 Zele