The Mysterious Shortwave Radio Station Stoking US-Russia Nuclear Fears
Since the beginning of this year, Ria-Novosti has published approximately one story per week on UVB-76, suggesting that her coded messages have been linked to missile strikes on Iran, the war in Ukraine and negotiations with Trump.
RT, which had once struck the idea that UVB -76 was part of the nuclear deterrence of Moscow, began to publish its programs regularly on X, by writing in April that the station often broadcasts “pre -major coded alerts” – in particular around telephone calls between Trump and Putin – and suggesting that it works as a “Nucle Faillsfe”. “”
Chatting on the station grew up on Telegram, the popular messaging application in Russia. The canals said that UVB-76 had become active “during climbing periods” of military activity and that it served as a sort of oracle, sending its coded messages “before global events”. Some of these channels, some with millions of subscribers, are themselves close to the Russian Ministry of Defense.
“In times of tension between Russia and the West,” says Goldmanis, “such articles are ideal for growing tension and fear.” There is a certain irony in the fact that the Russians seem to be frightening with stories of their own network of military communications, but he argues that he testifies to a deeper fear in Russia: “fear of losing war, the fear of the collapse of the state, the fear of Western nuclear action, the fear of their own government and their soldier”.
All these national shadowboxing, in turn, made the headlines of international newspapers. The British tabloid The Sun has proclaimed that Russia’s “Radio Doomsday station” had transmitted its cryptic “code”. Belgium Het Laatste Nieuws reported that radio messages had caused “increased vigilance among military analysts worldwide”. Politika, a newspaper of the Serbian daily, wrote a long article which claimed that UVB-76 “put fear in the hearts of NATO and Pentagon generals”, who were helpless to break its code. (This article was republished in Russian by the RT foreign translation service)
In the midst of this new attention, the Moscow communications regulator, Roskomnadzor – responsible for monitoring, regulation and censorship of all mass media, including both short wave and Internet radio – founded on UVB -76 for the first time. A spokesman for the agency has not said much, telling RT that frequency information and its objective “is not accessible to the public”.
As the public interest increased, UVB-76 continued to produce messages. On May 23, an operator read the code “беззие”, roughly translated as “the absence of maliciousness” and “хрюкостave” or “oink”, followed by a series of numbers. This message, in particular, drew the attention of Dmitry Medvedev.
Medvedev was President and Prime Minister of Russia and now sits on the Hawkish Security Council in Russia as vice-president. Analysts of the Institute for the Study of War say that Medvedev is frequently deployed by the Kremlin to “inflammatory rhetoric, including often nuclear blackmail, in information space to spread fear among Western decision -makers and discourage future military aid to Ukraine.”
“Doomsday Radio: May’s” lack of malice “has been replaced by a fierce” Ooing “, wrote Medvedev on his telegram channel. Invoking a wave of Ukrainian drone attacks that had disrupted Moscow, Medvedev has taken thematic insults against Ukrainians and their donors in Europe:” pigs “and” pigs ” “Sangrants”.
“Dead hand spasms”
Coincident or intentional, the new fascination of Russia for UVB-76 comes just when he tries to go up the fear of nuclear Armageddon. To do this, Moscow turns to this piece of the tradition of the Cold War: the dead hand.
Throughout the Cold War, there was an omnipresent idea that the Soviets had built a kind of apocalyptic device. Popularized by films like Security failure And Dr Strangelove, The idea went that Moscow had developed the ability to launch its ballistic missiles, even if all the leaders of the Communist Party died. Such an answer could effectively end life on earth.
