A Ukrainian drone strike on Russia’s Armavir radar station, which is part of Moscow’s nuclear warning system, has raised concerns in the West.

The attack on May 23 damaged the advanced facility located in the Krasnodar region, which also provides conventional air defense and monitors airspace over Ukraine and Crimea.

Ukrainian officials confirmed the strike, highlighting the station’s role in tracking long-range Atacms missiles supplied by the US.

Mauro Gilli, a senior researcher at ETH Zurich, called the strike a tactical success, as it forces Russia to redeploy air defense systems and demonstrates that no Russian military site is invulnerable, The Telegraph has reported.

However, other Western analysts, including Hans Kristensen from the Federation of American Scientists and Norwegian military analyst Thord Are Iversen, expressed concerns, arguing that targeting Russia’s nuclear-warning infrastructure is unwise and risky, especially during heightened tensions.

The Armavir station is one of Russia’s ten advanced Voronezh-class radar installations, each capable of tracking 500 objects simultaneously within a range of about 4,000 miles.

Written by B.C. Begley