“The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to disclose operational details, said the attack took over 1 1/2-year to execute and was personally supervised by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.”
Ukraine trucked drones in containers deep into Russia and hit airfields as far as Irkutsk, more than 4,000 km away. The figure of more than 40 aircraft comes from one anonymous Ukrainian official. Russia launched 472 drones at Ukraine the same day. Peace talks in Istanbul started the next morning.