The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), in tandem with the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), has claimed operational responsibility for a highly destructive weekend air campaign that bypassed the Russian capital’s elite air defenses and heavily degraded occupied infrastructure in Crimea.
In a statement published to the intelligence agency’s official Telegram channel on Sunday, May 17, SBU Head Major General Yevhenii Khmara confirmed that specialized drone operators from the Center for Special Operations “Alpha” managed to simultaneously hit heavily fortified domestic manufacturing assets and frontline military airfields.
While the Russian Ministry of Defense claimed to have neutralized over 550 Ukrainian drones across 14 separate regions overnight, SBU flight logs and corresponding ground telemetry confirmed that precision munitions cleanly hit several highly sensitive targets inside the Moscow region.