Ukrainian → English transcript

The web is a unique, multi-stage special operation that encompasses a number of critically important components.

First of all, it's logistics—that is, getting the assets themselves behind enemy lines, and in our case that’s 150 FPV combat drones.

It’s the delivery of small houses which, accordingly, then deliver the assets onward to the airfields.

Separately, we should note an extremely important element—the agent network component.

This is the work of our fellow citizens, our covert helpers. This is extremely important.

If, in general, we look at the web as a whole, it’s a comprehensive effort.

Agent network and technical—so, a symbiosis.

You know, there are certain intelligence officers out there who today prioritize the technical component in intelligence work.

That means certain technical intrusions, and so on.

We are proponents of the view that the agent network comes first.

And our work is at its most effective when there is the right synergy between the agent and technical components.

In this case, we are witnessing precisely such unique work.

We purchased five suitable cars, rented an office, and rented appropriate warehouse facilities.

By the way, this was one block from the FSB Directorate in Chelyabinsk Oblast.

So we felt at ease there.

At first glance, the drones look like ordinary ones, but these are unique drones.

They were specially designed for this operation.

They have several types of communication.

Each of these cabins is a fully autonomous so-called hunting cabin.

And inside it there were Kaflo batteries, solar panels, and other categories of goods.

This made it possible to continuously power the drones, which were already meant to be in their combat formations.

In case our operation might take place in the cold season,

and in those time zones temperatures drop well below minus 40,

then the drone had to be fully charged.

But at the same time this created additional difficulties in getting these small houses into the territory of the Russian Federation,

since all these categories of goods cannot just be brought in there, because Russia is under sanctions.

And it was also very difficult to do.

I won't go into all the details, but believe me, we went through seven circles of hell to make it happen.

The warhead of each drone consisted of two charges, 800 grams each, of a special mixture,

which we developed specifically for this operation.

Essentially, the mixture and the drone itself are a combined shaped-charge/high-explosive to burn through the aircraft's fuselage itself

and to produce a high-explosive blast effect inside and subsequent ignition.

And what we have already seen—and what we will later witness—is how the petroleum products themselves were burning,

which were in the very fuel tanks of the planes themselves.

Accordingly, our sources, on the day when the little houses had already left the city of Chelyabinsk toward the airfields,

they left the territory of the Russian Federation allegedly on vacation.

But in one of the countries, upon arriving for vacation, they already received other documents with different personal details

and, using those documents, entered the territory of Ukraine.

They came to me; they were transferred to a combat operations command post.

I personally had the honor to hug them and thank them.

And the president was in contact with us the whole time.

He had repeatedly, prior to that, inquired about specific details,

And at times, frankly, I sped it up, since his management style is such that,

that, you know, they say, "Don't put off till tomorrow what you can do today,"

but he works like this: don't put off till tomorrow what's for today— do it yesterday, period.

Meaning everything was due yesterday.

And it so happened that it was carried out exactly on June 1, but there were certain ideas,

to do it much earlier.

That's a touch of humor.

We planned to do it even before May 9, but over Easter they went on a bender over there,

sorry—well, yes, they were heavily abusing alcohol.

Then on May 1 they have a May Day picnic, and they lie around for a week—they're nowhere to be found.

Then on May 9 they…

So we really lost a month, I'm telling you frankly, precisely because of this primary reason.