NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Transformation Pierre Vandier said Ukraine's "creativity", including its massive Spiderweb drone attack deep inside russia, holds important lessons for Western armies.
He said this in an interview with AFP.
"What the Ukrainians did in Russia was a Trojan horse -- and the trojan horse was thousands of years ago. Today, we see this kind of tactic being reinvented by technical and industrial creativity," French Admiral Pierre Vandier said in an interview.
Vandier stressed that the operation showed how important innovation and adaptation are to victory, as modern warfare changes at lightning speed.
"It was a real coup. We are entering a dynamic era where armies must rely on both major planning but also adaptive planning. We will witness continuous innovation where, week by week, month by month or year by year, we will be able to invent things we hadn't anticipated," he said.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that russian truck drivers did not know that the mobile cottages and other containers they were transporting were secretly equipped with drones that attacked russian airfields and damaged military equipment worth billions of dollars as part of the SSU's Spiderweb special operation.
Recall, on June 1, the Security Service of Ukraine conducted a unique special operation, as a result of which four strategic air bases in russia were hit: Olenya, Ivanovo, Dyagilevo and Belaya. According to the head of the SSU, Vasyl Maliuk, who personally led the operation, more than 40 russian strategic aircraft were hit.
The SSU reported that as a result of these actions, about 34% of russian cruise missile carriers were disabled, which is estimated at approximately USD 7 billion.
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