Operation Spider's Web: opening Pandora's Box

Only Ukraine could have come up with something so brilliant. But other countries might try it

Operation Spider’s Web, in which Ukraine disabled and destroyed around 40 of Russia’s most prized military planes, some of them located more than 4,000 kilometres from Kyiv, will be talked of as one of the boldest, most innovative special operations in history. It has been described in detail elsewhere, but the most creative thing about its success was …