Two days ago, the Ukrainians (read: the Americans) performed a successful drone attack that damaged the Voronezh radar station in Russian Krasnodar.
This radar is part of the nuclear early warning systems. An attack to nuclear early warning systems is something that would traditionally precede a sneak first strike, and as such is taken extremely seriously. This is absolutely not something Ukrainians would have done on their own, because it makes no sense in context of the Ukraine war theatre. This is something unprecedented and extremely serious, basically comparable to a special force diversionary attack on nuclear silos with the goal of disabling the ICBMs.
This never happened before, and in traditional nuclear doctrine this would have a very serious answer – raise the readiness level of the nuclear forces to the equivalent of DEFCON 2, and launch if any redundant radar or satellite detection systems are compromised. Also, the answer to this would traditionally be destruction of the American radar stations in Poland, Romania and so on, that are a part of the nuclear war toolkit.
I cannot overstate the seriousness of this. We are in the initial phase of a nuclear war between NATO and the Russian Federation.
So far, the fact that the Russians kept this under wraps means that the thing is too serious for politics and news, and they didn’t want to paint themselves into a corner in ways that would mandate an instant nuclear strike.
Update 27-5-2024: Yesterday another Voronezh radar station, this time in Orenburg, was hit. There is no indication of the level of the actual damage to the station in question, which probably means that there was little to none, but the intent itself creates a pattern.
Update 29-5-2024: Third attack, Voronezh station in Krasnodar again.
Third attack this morning, Krasnodar station again.
https://southfront.press/breaking-third-attack-of-nato-drones-targeted-russian-voronezh-dm-radar-in-armavir-krasnodar-region/
There’s news of another Voronezh radar station being destroyed by the “Ukrainians”, this time in Orenburg. There seems to be a pattern developing.
https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/record-set-ukrainian-defense-intelligence-1716790596.html
What is meant here by successful drone attack? As far as I concluded from the reports it seems like drones reached the site and left damage on the radar unit command buildings there, and photo of the inflicted damage are of the questionable authenticity as it was published by Kiev regime.
It seems to me idiotic to do such kind of diversion with couple of qudricopter drones carrying few kilos of explosive trying to do some serious damage to the radar installations there.
That kind of half-assed attempt to subvert Russians is more like desperate begging to coerce Russia to nuke America because if I were in their place I’d either make sure I wipe out all Voronezh radar sites scattered throughout Russian Federation than to concetrate on just this one because otherwise it doesn’t make much sense.
It definitely isn’t something that could have been done without American approval, and it looks like either a test, to see what Putin will do, or indeed an attempt to provoke a nuclear war, because that’s what the Americans want. It’s just that Putin isn’t cooperating so they’re frustrated.
The real question is, what do we not know? How many nuclear subs were sunk in the deep blue sea, out of sight, and not reported, in order to avoid a war? How many space assets were hit by particle beams or lasers from the ground, and nobody knows in order to avoid war? How many serious sabotages were performed, making serious damage on strategic assets? And so on.
Apparently, people in Dalmatia reported hearing strange sounds coming from the sky for days, but there were no official explanation. https://www.dalmacijadanas.hr/splicani-dojavljuju-cudne-zvukove-u-vecernjim-satima-mislio-sam-da-je-grmljavina/