The Ukrainian drone attack on Russia's Armavir radar station in southwestern Russia's Krasnodar region, along with the (attempted?) attack near the city of Orsk in the Orenburg region, raises the risk of a massive escalation – even a nuclear war, Russia writes Today!
Armavir and Ursk are an important part of the early warning system for detecting intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) attacks and therefore a pillar of Russia's security strategy.
Colonel Markus Reisner from the Austrian Armed Forces fears that the risk of nuclear war has increased massively after this!
According to the military expert, who regularly comments on developments in the Ukraine war, Russia currently has up to ten such early warning radar systems scattered across the country.
The Armavir facility " was built to counter similar Soviet systems originally installed in western Ukraine and Crimea," Reisner said. The Armavir radar station has two Voronezh-type radars!
"Their goal is, above all, to be able to detect incoming US nuclear missiles in time to be able to quickly initiate their own measures, including, in the most extreme case, a Russian nuclear counter-attack" , as said!
Such facilities as Armavir are therefore " an integral part of Russia's strategic early warning system, and its failure could affect the country's ability to detect incoming nuclear threats."
Reisner speculates that the US is behind the "Ukrainian attack" on the facilities in Armawi. Washington may have wanted to show that it "no longer wants to accept the intolerable situation of Russian threats with nuclear weapons."
"It remains to be seen how or if Russia will respond to this attack. Russia's early detection system is part of the country's nuclear deterrence strategy. The attack on Armavir could trigger nuclear retaliation,”
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