Posted on 05/27/2024 11:38:54 AM PDT by Grzegorz 246
KYIV (Reuters) -A Ukrainian drone targeted a long-range radar deep inside Russia on Sunday, the second such strike in a week on infrastructure used by Moscow to monitor Ukraine’s military activities, a Kyiv intelligence source said.
The source said the strike was aimed at a “Voronezh M” radar near the city of Orsk in the Orenburg region some 1,500 km from the closest territory held by Kyiv’s forces.
The source, who declined to be named, did not say if there was any damage, but the move would make it one of the deepest attempted drone strikes in Russian territory since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
There was no immediate comment from Moscow on the matter, although Russia’s Izvestia newspaper and other media outlets reported that a drone had come down in the Orenburg region on Sunday and that no civilian infrastructure had been hit.
The Kyiv source also confirmed reports of an earlier Ukrainian drone attack on a “Voronezh-DM” radar in southern Krasnodar region on May 22.
The Russian service of U.S. media outlet RFE/RL cited satellite imagery showing damage at the Voronezh-DM radar site in Krasnodar region. Reuters has not independently verified the imagery.
Thord Are Iversen, an independent defenсe analyst and former Norwegian Navy officer, said the radars were part of Russia’s ballistic missile early warning system. Russia is a major nuclear power.
Their primary function, he told Reuters, was to detect and track intercontinental ballistic missiles and to determine if Russia was under nuclear attack. They also have secondary roles such as space tracking.
Asked why the radars were targeted, the Kyiv source said: “They monitor the actions of the Ukrainian security and defence forces in the south of Ukraine.”
With Russia’s invasion now in its third year, Kyiv has increasingly relied on long-range drones to target Russian military and energy targets, in particular oil refineries, in recent months.
Russia has pounded Ukraine with long-range strikes throughout the war and renewed its aerial assault on the energy system, in what it says is retaliation for Kyiv’s strikes on targets in Russia.
A Ukrainian media outlet cited an unnamed source saying the drone had flown 1,800 km (1,118 miles) in Sunday’s attack.
Earlier this month Ukrainian intelligence source said that Kyiv’s longest-range drone attack to date had targeted an oil processing plant in Russia’s Bashkiria region at a range of 1,500 km.
Time to nuke Zelensky and end this war. Time to Build Back Better. Democrats say they are for that but never made a move to do it.
You’re insane.
I feel fine.
Not true: It's 'in progress. You neglected to cite their intention to destroy the US to 'rebuild' it.
They just omitted that little detail in their gaslighting of the useful idiots...
I give Zelensky two more months. Biden’s going to sign a peace treaty and act like he’s the hero
What do you think Grzegorz 246? Am I insane? I want the war to stop. I don’t want European countries involved in a messy war.
Their primary function, he told Reuters, was to detect and track intercontinental ballistic missiles and to determine if Russia was under nuclear attack. They also have secondary roles such as space tracking.
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secondary roles include ELINT functions which makes them a legitimate target.
No, actually we want them to correct accurate information they are NOT under attack from NATO. Otherwise they may strike at a non-existent threat that was false.
Sorry Bob, Xi reined in Putin on the use of nukes issue, forcing him to sign an agreement to that effect when they met last week.
Plus, the US signaled Russia that use of one nuke, that causes no damage and kills no one, will mean the US will take out ALL Russian targets in UKR with conventional weapons.
So you can cross that issue off your bucket list.
No, actually we want them to correct accurate information
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WE? WE? So you admit you are Russian and a troll?
WOW! You sure know how to ruin my day. Thanks a lot. Fine, let’s have a long protracted war and tens of thousands more get killed for nothing. Maybe even draw in the European countries and the US as well. Hell, China can join in too. And the Middle East while we’re at it.
No, actually we want them to correct accurate information
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WE? WE? So you admit you are Russian and a troll?
This radar is a thousand miles from Ukraine and looking south. It is a valuable Russian military asset, but of no immediate tactical use against Ukraine. This is a "counter value" attack. The Ukes have attacked two valuable early warning/space monitoring radar sites in the past couple days.
The Ukes attacked a site near Sevastopol a few days ago, and I was dismissive of the site as a Cold War antiquary curiosity. That was true of the existing, and defunct radar site, but they apparently had or have Voronezh-SM under construction at the Sevastopol Site, and the Ukes must have attacked the unfinished radar. The Armavir and Orsk sites are both on the periphery of Russia and pose no threat to Ukraine, but being on the periphery, the Ukes could overfly neutrals with no air defenses and sucker punch the Russians. The Sevastopol site on google maps is still the defunct Cold War radar site, but they may have done some building since that photo. In a phased array radar the money is in the antenna. This probably exhausts the low hanging fruit of early warning/space surveillance radars that Ukraine can hit.
Thank you - ruining your day is a wonder-filled event. (Patting self on back)
I'm someone that wants this stupid war over. It never should have started. Trump offered before it began to meet and de-escalate the situation. TPTB wanted this war. Globalists love this war. The elitists who want all of the "little people" off of the planet want it. I don't want it.
WOW
I’m someone that wants this stupid war over.
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Yes me too; the war could be over in a flash if your boss, Vladimir Vladimirovich would withdraw his troops from occupied UKR and Crimea.
DJT would de-escalate by giving UKR all the weapons it needs as fast as they could absorb them, overwhelming Russia’s declining ability to wage a ground war. DJT is no fool.
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