Alex Christoforou’s tour de force: 4 highly informative videos on the Ukraine War, the West’s machinations, and more

Alex Christoforou

Crimea bridge fixed. West celebrates attack. Clinton & Blair wanted Orban to invade Serbia. Update 1

Crimea, Kerch Bridge attacked. Starlink down. ⁽¹⁾  BBC preventive kicks. Ninja in Ukraine. Update 1 (Oct 8, 2022)

THE MEME "PUTIN MUST GO" POINTS DIRECTLY TO THE WEST'S REAL MOTIVE FOR STOKING THE WAR IN UKRAINE

No one f*s with a Biden. Bolton, Putin must go. NYT, US Intel Darya Dugina & Ukraine. Update 1

THE US-ORCHESTRATED PILLAGE OF UKRAINE
Biden, $33B for Ukraine. Ministry of Truth, USA. Poland exercises. Zelensky UK citizen. Update 1

Apr 29, 2022
A wide-ranging discussion of the plundering of Ukraine behind the mask of all-out support and solidarity with Kiev against "Russian aggression". 

Alex Christoforou

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Alex Christoforou is the Co-Founder, President and Chairman of The Duran.

APPENDIX—SPECIAL NOTES

⁽¹⁾ Moon of Alabama, as usual, had probably the best write-up on this topic.

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian side of the conflict experiences a communication failure that is likely way more consequential [than the attack on the Kerch Brdige].

Adam Kinzinger🇺🇦🇺🇸✌️@AdamKinzinger - 16:26 UTC · Oct 7, 2022

Evidently the Starlink system is down over the front lines of Ukraine. @elonmusk should make a statement about this, or, this should be investigated. This is a national security issue.

Tore @potifar66 - 21:55 UTC · Oct 7, 2022

Some of the outages led to a “catastrophic” loss of communication in recent weeks, said one senior Ukrainian government official with direct knowledge of the issue.

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The Russian army is leading globally in its ability to wage electronic warfare. It can disable ground-based radio traffic on any frequency. It has now found ways to also disable ground-to-satellite connections as used by the Starlink constellation.

At the beginning of the war the Ukrainian military was supplied with thousands of Starlink ground terminals that can connect to the swarms of small Starlink satellites, which were financed by the Pentagon, but managed by Elon Musk's companies. They allowed for communication between Ukrainian ground units as well as for general command and control of larger operations. Without Starlink, the Ukrainian command will depend on cable-based field telephone, runners and couriers. All of which are extremely vulnerable in an artillery-rich environment.

Since 2001 Russia developed the Tirada 2 electromagnetic system which can disable ground-to-satellite traffic in specific areas.

Russian military in the near future can get into service systems that can disable enemy communication satellites, an informed Interfax interlocutor in the military-industrial complex said 05 January 2018. “One of the projects is Tirada 2. Development work was started back in 2001,” he said. According to him, this complex will be able to disable communication satellites from the ground. “He acts by electronic suppression. This is a multi-million dollar project,” he said. The fact that the Russian Federation is working on the creation of weapons to suppress satellites was announced on November 30 last year by Oleg Achasov, deputy head of the Federal State Budgetary Institution “46 Central Scientific Research Institute”.
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In November 2018, the FSB called the “threat to national security” a project to cover the globe with high-speed satellite Internet.

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In 2019 an OSCE observer drone took pictures of a Tirada complex in the Donbas region.

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The disablement of the Starlink communication traffic was only a question of time. The traffic had to be analyzed to identify the frequencies and algorithms used by the transmitter and receiver. Software had to be written to implement a matching radio jamming pattern. The hardware of the Tirada system was likely already sufficient to emit the appropriate patterns on the identified frequencies.

As this system has now been proven to be effective in the field it will likely be made available on a wider scale. Russian electronic warfare equipment can already disable all ground radio traffic in specific areas. Soon all frontline communications of the Ukrainian forces will be disabled.

READ THE WHOLE DISPATCH AT MoA'S SITE, HERE.