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The Ukrainian/NATO military attempt attacks on the Russian strategic Missile Attack Warning System aimed to detect the launch of ballistic nuclear missiles at great distances. On the evening of May 26, an unidentified UAV fell near the village of Gorkovskoye in the Novoorsky district, near the city of Orsk in the Orenburg region. The Voronezh-M over-the-horizon radar station, built in 2017, is located near this village.
Voronezh radars are Russian early-warning radar, providing long distance monitoring of airspace against ballistic missile attack and aircraft monitoring. The Voronezh-DM radars are capable of detecting the launch of ballistic nuclear missiles at a distance of up to 6,000 km and in the near space.
The Russian military did not officially comment on the incident. If the drone flew from the territory of Ukraine, it had to travel more than 1,500 kilometers. Moreover, the drone had to either fly over part of the territory of Northern Kazakhstan or violate its airspace.
Ukrainian media published the satellite imagery of the Voronezh-M radar station in the Orenburg region, claiming another fake victory. Ukrainian media claimed that the territory of the facility was damaged, circling the alleged areas affected by the strike by a single Ukrainian UAV.
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In fact, the satellite imagery did not confirm any damage to the radar. The dark areas seen on the territory of the facility could be explained by some shadows, pits in the asphalt or simply plashes after rain. A single Ukrainian drone could not inflict such damage across the territory of the radar station.
Thus, the satellite imagery confirmed the reports that the attack failed or it was thwarted by Russian air defense.
On May 24, Ukrainian drones attacked another Voronezh-DM radar near Armavir in the Krasnodar region. The antennas of the radar were reportedly damaged.
On May 23, ATACMS missiles struck Russian Center for Deep Space Communications near the city of Alushta on the southern coast of the Crimean peninsula. The satellite imagery confirmed the damage:
The ongoing attacks on the Russian strategic facilities do not affect to the ongoing operations on the Ukrainian frontlines. Hiding behind the puppet Kiev regime, NATO attempts to inflict damage to the strategic infrastructure of the Russian Federation. Attacks on the Russian nuclear security system is a clear step towards the global nuclear war.
According to paragraph c) of paragraph 19 of the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation “On the Fundamentals of the State policy of the Russian Federation in the field of nuclear deterrence”, the conditions determining the possibility of our country using nuclear weapons include, inter alia, “the enemy’s impact on critically important state or military facilities of the Russian Federation, disabling which will lead to the disruption of the response of the nuclear forces.”
The dangerous provocations are launched amid the ongoing Russian exercice on the deployment of non-strategic nuclear weapons in the southern military district of the Russian Federation.
