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Hello, this week the spotlight has returned to Ukraine after Kiev orchestrated an audacious
series of drone attacks deep inside Russia. They also covertly targeted the Kursh bridge in Crimea.
We then had that underwhelming second round of talks in Istanbul and another call between Trump
and Putin. We'll be answering all your questions today with our expert panel.
I'm Vitaly Shavchenko.
And I'm Lisa Doucette in the Ukrainecast studio.
And I'm Paul Adams in Kiev.
And I'm Lucy Hawkins. Welcome to Ukrainecast.
Ukrainecast from BBC News.
Well, let's start with that attack that stunned the world, not only stunned the world, impressed
the world as well.
Operation Spider Web.
We'll talk about the implications in a minute.
But before the world found out that that attack had taken place, we had a question in all
the way from New Zealand from Sharon, who said, one topic I would like to know more
about is Ukrainian capabilities to defensively strike inside Russia.
Zelensky has repeatedly said that the war should be felt where it came from.
There are rarely reports in the mainstream media about Ukrainian defensive actions on
Russian territory.
Now, Sharon, for all the details and all of you on how Spider Web was carried out, do
make sure you go to the UkraineCast episode that we did on Tuesday.
It's on our feed.
But let's talk more about Spider Web, though, now that we're a few days on, and what it
tells us about Ukraine's tactics inside Russia going forward.
Paul, do you think we've got more to come?
I think we do.
In fact, President Zelensky has hinted as much. He talked about a series of operations.
A few days ago, all the talk was of Russia's anticipated summer offensive, an offensive
which actually kind of is under way in certain areas, if you look at what's going on close
to Sumy in the northeast of the country.
But now, since the weekend, it's all been about what Ukraine is up to, with Operation
Spider's Web, with the attack on the Kerch Bridge, with another thing that went largely
unreported, which was a Ukrainian hack of the computer systems of the Tupolev aircraft
manufacturer.
But, apparently, they made off with a huge amount of data.
So, Ukraine is really keen to show that it is creative, that it has regained the momentum.
And, you know, quite apart from the sheer kind of military physical impact of all of
this, and, you know, let's not kind of beat about the bush, the attack on those air bases
across Russia was a truly, truly spectacular operation, which will go down in the annals
of modern military history and will probably be the subject of novels and movies in the
future.
It is just gobsmacking in its audacity.
It's right up there with the Israeli use of exploding pages to kill members of Hezbollah
last year, a really extraordinary operation.
But quite apart from the kind of military purpose of it all, if you think back to whenever
it was, February, when President Zelensky went and visited Donald Trump in that the
Oval Office, and they had that dreadful encounter.
And one of Donald Trump's lines then was, you have got no cards.
Well, if you look at the memes that have exploded onto social media here in Ukraine since the
weekend, that subject keeps coming back.
