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

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