Helen Walters
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630 appearances
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 7 Sep
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Ian, thank you so much for joining us.
Here we are.
OK, so much is still emerging about what took place, but here's what I think we know.
In an operation codenamed Spider Web, Ukraine launched a bunch of drones off trucks, which took out 41 of Russia's most strategic military planes.
The Economist called it Ukraine's most audacious operation on Russian territory to date.
So tell us, what do we really need to know about what happened here?
I think the phrase asymmetric warfare is really key for us to understand here, as you say.
So I was reading that this operation took about a year and a half to plan.
It was obviously extremely daring.
But as we do try to understand the implications of what happened here, how do you think Ukraine actually managed to pull this off, playing, as you say, the David role in this David versus Goliath story?
So at the top, you said that we need to talk about three things in particular or dive into them.
And one of them, of course, is Putin and the Russian response to this.
Now, it seems, as you say, reports are differing as to the number of planes that were actually lost, but it seems like Russia has lost about a third of its strategic bombers in the raid so far.
That's more than $7 billion in damage.
I'm also curious, you said that they can't rebuild these planes.
Really stupid question, but why not?
Thank you so much.
So clearly, whatever the final numbers, this has been extraordinarily damaging for Russia.
And in response, on Sunday, they launched, as I've heard it, 472 drones, three ballistic missiles and four cruise missiles at Ukraine.
What should we also expect from Russia going forward?
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