A foreign media evaluation has emerged that Ukraine's large-scale drone attack on Russian territory on the 1st (local time) is comparable to Japan's 'Pearl Harbor attack.'
According to major foreign media, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) announced that it attacked four Russian mainland air bases through what is known as the 'spider web operation.' Ukraine claimed that this operation struck over 40 Russian military aircraft, including the Tupolev (Tu)-160, resulting in damages estimated at $7 billion (approximately 9.65 trillion won).
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) assessed that, based on information from Ukraine, this drone attack was the most sophisticated operation Ukraine has demonstrated since the war with Russia began in February 2022. While it could not verify the scale of the damages claimed by Ukraine, it noted that 'it is clear that it was at least a remarkable achievement with stunning propaganda effects.'
There are also evaluations suggesting that this airstrike is comparable to the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack. Max Boot, a security columnist for the Washington Post (WP), stated in an opinion piece that if Japan's attack on Hawaii, which was once considered an 'impregnable fortress,' showcased how aircraft carriers emerged as the center of naval power and rewritten the rules of warfare, then Ukraine also 'rewrote the rules of warfare' with this day's attack.
Serhiy Kuzhan, a defense analyst from Ukraine, stated, 'No intelligence operation from any country in the world has ever done something like this,' and reported that 40 out of about 120 Russian strategic bombers were attacked. Ukrainian military blogger Oleksandr Kovalenko predicted that 'the scale of the damage is so great that it will be difficult for the Russian military-industrial complex to recover in the near future given the current state.'