Helen Walters

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It is Monday, June the 2nd, the day after Ukraine unleashed an astonishing drone raid deep inside Russia and in doing so essentially rewrote the rules of war.

I'm Helen Walters.

I am the head of media and curation at TED, and I am joined to make sense of it all by Eurasia Group founder Ian Bremmer.

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.