President Volodymyr Zelensky has awarded state honors to officers of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) who took part in the special operation Spiderweb.

According to Ukrinform, Zelensky announced this on Facebook.

"Today, I presented state awards of Ukraine to the people without whom Operation "Spiderweb" would not have happened. We have no right to name them – everything remains absolutely classified and will remain so for a long time. This is already a historic operation by the Security Service of Ukraine, one that was carefully prepared, and on this very day one year ago, it entered its final stage – striking Russian military equipment. Farther than Ukrainian long-range capabilities had ever reached before. As precisely as no one in Russia expected. And as justly as the enemy's strategic aviation deserves," Zelensky said.

He recalled that "Spiderweb" destroyed or at least damaged 41 aircraft.

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