DISINFO: The Kyiv regime carried out terrorist attacks on military airports
SUMMARY
The Kyiv regime carried out terrorist attacks using FPV drones on airports in the Murmansk, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Ryazan, and Amur regions. [...] All terrorist attacks on military airfields in the Ivanovo, Ryazan, and Amur regions were repelled. In the Murmansk and Irkutsk regions, several aircraft units caught fire as a result of drones launched from the immediate vicinity of the airfields.
RESPONSE
Recurring disinformation narratives claiming that Ukraine is not interested in peace, portraying it as a terrorist state.
Ukraine’s strike of Sunday, 1 June 2025 exclusively targeted legitimate military objectives. The targets were air bases and aircraft regularly used to bomb Ukrainian territory. As such, they fall strictly under the category of legitimate military targets under international law, and the operation cannot be considered a terrorist attack under any circumstance.
Ukraine says it completed its biggest long-range attack of the war with Russia, after using smuggled drones to launch a series of major strikes on 40 Russian warplanes at four military bases.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said 117 drones were used in the so-called "Spider's Web" operation by the SBU security service, striking "34% of [Russia's] strategic cruise missile carriers".
By contrast, Russian attacks against non-combatants and civilian infrastructure, such as largest air attack of the war to date (as of late May 2025) which damaged mostly residential buildings and civilian infrastructure, killing at least 12 people and injuring 79, have been a constant throughout the invasion, despite non-credible denials by Russian officials and pro-Kremlin disinformation. Since 2022, Russia has attacked civilian targets multiple times, including the city theatre in Mariupol, residential buildings, schools and energy facilities.
See other examples of similar disinformation narratives, such as claims that attacks on Russia demonstrate the terrorist nature of Zelenskyy's regime, that Ukraine is a terrorist state that openly supports terrorist groups in the Sahel region, that Kyiv is training terrorists to fight Syria and Russia, and that Ukraine is preparing terrorist attacks in Europe to disrupt peace talks.