Has Russia retaliated? In response to Ukraine's sneak attack on Russian strategic bombers, Russia's retaliation has yet to come. However, on June 1st, the Russian military launched a large-scale air strike against Ukraine, using up to 479 loitering munitions and missiles, including as many as 210 Geranium long-range loitering munitions, once again breaking the historical record for single-day strikes.

But with continuous airstrikes by the Russian military over several days, Western media have even stopped reporting on such strikes. Meanwhile, Ukraine itself does not consider these strikes as a retaliation to the Ukrainian military's sneak attack. After entering June, the Ukrainian Defense Intelligence Agency particularly announced that as of mid-May, the Russian military still had large stockpiles of missiles prepared for airstrikes against Ukraine, including:

The Army had stockpiled 600 Iskander-M ballistic missiles, 300 Iskander-K cruise missiles. These missile reserves had increased by 60% compared to the end of last year.

The Aerospace Force had stockpiled 300 Kh-22/32 supersonic air-to-surface missiles, an increase of 25% compared to the end of last year. Additionally, there were 300 KH-101 air-launched cruise missiles and nearly 100 KH-47M2 Kinzhal hypersonic missiles.

The Navy had stockpiled 700 P-800 Onyx cruise missiles and 3M22 Tsirkon hypersonic missiles, as well as 400 3M14 Kalibr cruise missiles.

Clearly, Russia has yet to officially retaliate...

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