SSU Head Vasyl Maliuk said that in order to bring small houses with drones to the russian federation for the Spiderweb operation they had to bribe russian customs officers.
The SSU head told journalists about this, the Ukrainian News agency reports.
He said that for the Spiderweb operation the SSU used 117 drones that had several types of communication. The warhead in the body of the drone itself consisted of two parts with a 1.6 kg warhead. The drone contained a special high-explosive charge that burns the body of the aircraft and explodes inside, which causes maximum damage to the target.
According to Maliuk, the drones hit the tanks of the aircraft and the side of the aircraft where the missile was located. They hit the avionics, the equipment that the enemy does not have in reserve.
"This is a very accurate and specially designed ammunition. Separate elements for communication were used, which are groups of goods subject to sanctions on the territory of the russian federation. The people who made the drones did not know that it was for the Spiderweb. The people who made the houses did not know that it was for airplanes. The people who transported it were also not instructed in the details... Each was responsible for his own extremely important, separate direction of work. I gathered the best drone operators of the Special Group "Alpha". They came to the combat control point at five in the morning, their phones were taken away. And the work began: each was given a target, a specific airplane was "allocated". Each had a model of the terrain, which took into account the reliefs, the location of the small houses, the route, how to fly there. I had my own models, you saw the photo," said Maliuk.
He added that a separate story was with the small houses that had solar battery systems, the Eco Flow battery system, which were supposed to constantly power the drones if the operation took place in winter.
"These small houses were traveling separately. And when they were supposed to enter the territory of russia, it was a group of goods subject to sanctions: Eco Flow, solar batteries. A whole story began, we were even forced to bribe russian customs officers separately," the SSU head said.
According to him, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and another close employee in the SSU system knew about the Spiderweb operation, everyone else - in a very narrow profile.
"You see, this is the tip of the iceberg of our unique logistical, drone, and intelligence approaches. Remote work, artificial intelligence. And it was in the Spiderweb operation that everything was brought together into a single whole. And it grows together and works effectively only when it is done, without exaggeration, with a sincere heart, with faith in the result, with positivity, and all participants are maximally dedicated to the cause," said Maliuk.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, 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 SBU's Spiderweb special operation.
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