Russia’s Tu-22M3 “Backfire,” a supersonic, variable-sweep wing strategic bomber, has been a key platform for launching cruise missiles (like the Kh-22/Kh-32) against Ukraine. -Originating from the 1970s Tu-22M program,

Operation Spiderweb indicates Kyiv is well-equipped with the lethal UAVs required to launch surprise attacks across the border.

Russia also urged the United States and Britain to restrain Kyiv after the attacks, which Ukrainian officials have lauded as showing Kyiv can still fight back after more than three years of war. British and U.