Last Sunday, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) – maybe SBU works better in Ukrainian, Служба безпеки України – conducted a series of attacks on Russian air bases that were home to much of Russia’s nuclear bombers. The attack, code-named Operation Spider’s Web, involved smuggling drone parts into Russia and reassembling them near the targets, which was widely reported in American and European newspapers.
What was not generally reported – at least I didn’t see it in the mainstream media – was that the Security Service of Ukraine hacked the website of the builder of the bombers, Tupolev (officially, United Aircraft Company Tupolev). Besides getting a bunch of confidential information, the Security Service of Ukraine changed the home page of Tupolev as shown above. The owl is a symbol closely associated with the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine (HUR), which is the mothership for the SBU.
Very cool! But of course here in Amurkyka we have need of neither secure communications nor security services; just trust in Marjorie Taylor Green and all will be well while the three-year-olds fight it out in the sandbox…
Ahhh, M TG, how DID you reelect her?
Love the emblem, but they poked the bear, and that won’t sit well.
Linda, Russia is throwing everything they have at Ukraine. What else can they do?
Ukraine is in the right. it’s just such a high stakes war, for the rest of Europe too, that it’s scary.