Putin’s strategic £4,000,000 radar incinerated in Ukrainian blitz

One of Vladimir Putin’s precious £4 million radars has been incinerated in a blitz on the occupied Crimean Peninsula, it has been reported.

Ukraine is believed to have destroyed the Russian high-value radar station, 48Y6-K1 Podlet, strategically put near the village of Kotovske on Thursday.

The mobile radar is particularly important to the Kremlin’s war as it is used to detect air targets at extremely low altitudes in a difficult interference environment.

Ukraine’s military intelligence service revealed that the Podlet issues target designations for the S-300 and S-400 air defence systems.

It said its estimated cost falls at around £4 million.

According to a Russian report, the radar uses modern technologies – solid-state receiving and transmitting modules with digital control, a multiprocessor computer system for processing signals and information, high-speed digital exchange channels and fiber-optic communication lines.

The operation highlights Ukraine’s ongoing efforts to break down Russia’s military capabilities, targeting high-value infrastructure and technological assets in occupied territories.

The military also targeted a Russian radar station of the Buk-M3 surface-to-air missile system in occupied Zaporizhzhia – the second one in just a week.

It is the latest version of the Soviet-era Buk systems family. It is a medium-range system that can intercept aerial targets, including tactical ballistic missiles, at a range of up to 40 miles.

In the early hours of this morning, Ukraine’s military said today it had struck the Atlas oil depot in Russia’s Rostov region overnight, causing a major fire.

‘Atlas is part of the Russian military-industrial complex that supplies petroleum products to the Russian army,’ said a military statement on Telegram.

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