Ukraine unleashed a ‘swarm’ of drones from the back of parked trucks to perform devastating co-ordinated attacks on Putin’s doomsday bombers in what has been dubbed ‘Operation Spiderweb’.

Two major Russian airfields for Vladimir Putin‘s nuclear strike warplanes – one in the Arctic, the other in Siberia – were reported ablaze today following ‘explosions’.

Both are thousands of miles from Ukraine but were ‘under drone attack’, with dozens of Moscow‘s nuclear capable warplanes evidently destroyed.

The attack – with drones possibly released from trucks near the bases – appears one of the most sensational of the entire war, and the blackest day for Putin.

Olenya airbase in Arctic Murmansk region is home to Russia‘s Tu-95 strategic bombers – potentially used to launch nuclear strikes on the West.

They have been used to attack Ukraine with conventional weapons.

Ablaze, too, was Belaya nuclear airbase in eastern Siberia’s Irkutsk region – some 2,900 miles from Ukraine.

Russian war-channels immediately began calling for Putin to respond by using nuclear weapons.

‘Disabling strategic aircraft gives Russia the right to use nuclear weapons,’ declared Vladislav Pozdnyakov, a war expert. ‘Let me remind you.’

Russia’s nuclear doctrine allows for a nuclear response in the event of an attack on ‘critical government or military infrastructure’.

In particular, ‘an enemy attack that disrupts the operation of nuclear forces, threatening Russia’s ability to respond’ could lead to Putin ordering an atomic strike.

Ukraine’s SBU secret service was reportedly conducting a large-scale special operation to destroy Russian bombers.

The Ukrainian media claimed more than 40 Putin aircraft had been hit, including Tu-95, Tu-22M3, and A-50 strategic bombers.

The damage to the enemy was alleged to exceed £1.5billion.

A driver of a truck filled with drones that attacked Olenegorsk in Murmansk ‘may not have known about the cargo’, said a report.

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