Ukrainian Drones Hit Strategic Radar Voronezh-M Near Orsk

May 27, 2024October 21, 2025

An unknown number of drones hit the Voronezh-M radar in Orenburg Oblast near Orsk city. At least enemy publics confirm that a minimum of one drone reached the target. In a straight line, this is more than 1,500 km to the nearest border point with Ukraine. However, the drones launched from some distance inside Ukrainian territory. Plus, they needed to bypass Kazakhstan’s border. This makes the actual distance much greater.

Moreover, the drones didn’t fly straight routes. Along this path sit enemy air defense systems. They protect the aviation nuclear munitions storage base in Borisoglebsk, the Engels-2 strategic bomber airbase, and the ICBM deployment area in Saratov Oblast. Therefore, unless these locations are the targets, drones must bypass them and “break” the route accordingly.

We base these considerations on common sense and on how our military commented on previous long-range strikes. At least our publics, relying on sources in the GUR, write that the drones covered a distance of 1,800 kilometers. If this gets confirmed, we have a range record.

Systematically Blinding the Bear

The target matters too. It turned out to be the stationary “Voronezh-M” radar — interesting in itself. Now a picture emerges that the enemy couldn’t even imagine. Earlier, our drones took out the stationary “Container” long-range detection radar in Mordovia. A month later — last week — the “Voronezh-DM” long-range detection radar near Armavir in Krasnodar region got taken out. And now drones hit the Voronezh-M radar of roughly the same class, working in a different frequency range, 30 km from Orsk.

Apparently, our military are clearing the southern direction of enemy radar systems. And by the way, anything can fly from the southern direction toward the enemy’s industrial hub in the Urals. And not just military targets either. From precisely this direction, something will fly toward the Yamantau complex — Pootin’s largest bunker, built in the depths of the mountain of the same name in the Southern Urals. Let’s just remind you that an underground city was built there, capable of accommodating more than 250,000 people. And obviously, in the very depths of the complex sits a cocoon for Pootin

Obviously, without nuclear weapons and delivery means, the Ukrainian Armed Forces cannot reach Khuilo¹ in such a fortified facility. But American military officials have repeatedly emphasized that new iterations of their nuclear weapons were designed precisely to destroy such objects. They’re not talking about hitting the exact point closest to the führer’s location.

The munition must hit within some radius of the target and, before detonation, burrow into the rock. After that — everything’s simple. A nuclear charge detonates and the explosion energy creates a gigantic seismic wave in this location. And the wave then collapses all the cavities that Pootin’s military dug so he could have aqua discos, spas, and gyms there, as he likes. According to military officials, these munitions guaranteed destroy practically everything within the blast radius. Pootin and his gang will either be immediately crushed by rock, or their location becomes a tomb where they’ll slowly die.

Asymmetric Warfare at Its Finest

Our Armed Forces don’t have such munitions, but they’re quite capable of clearing the necessary firing sector so that, if necessary, partners could lay two or three cigars in the right place so Pootin won’t need a comb. And here’s a twist nobody could even imagine. All these “Voronezhs,” “Containers,” and other over-the-horizon radars are massive and cumbersome structures. Tens of billions of dollars and decades went into creating them. Nobody could even imagine they could become targets of air attack in precisely this format.

Now it turns out the Ukraine’s military cheaply and effectively cut down what was conceived as the foundation of nuclear security in the Swamps.² When Ukrainian drones hit the Voronezh-M radar and similar systems, they demonstrate brutal asymmetric response. And it looks like the Armed Forces will “polish” these assets further — to the state of complete junk.

¹Khuilo – the most popular nickname for Russian dictator V. Putin. First used during the 2014 invasion, and since 2022 most Ukrainians call him only that. See more on Wikipedia.

²Swamps – derogatory term for russia, referring to its vast marshy territories and metaphorically to its corrupt system.