{"id":374720,"date":"2026-07-31T13:32:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T08:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=374720"},"modified":"2026-07-31T13:32:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T08:02:41","slug":"putins-doomsday-radio-crackles-into-life-after-russian-missile-hits-poland-news-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/07\/31\/putins-doomsday-radio-crackles-into-life-after-russian-missile-hits-poland-news-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin’s ‘doomsday radio’ crackles into life after Russian missile hits Poland | News World"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Russian President Vladimir Putin listens during a gathering on the Kremlin in Moscow (Picture: Alexander Kazakov\/Pool Sputnik K)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Vladimir Putin\u2019s notorious \u2018doomsday radio\u2019 crackled into life with a string of codewords after a suspected Russian missile hit NATO territory in Poland.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The mysterious Cold War relic spewed out a sequence of cryptic messages hours after the incursion, which could further deepen tensions between the military alliance and Moscow.<\/p>\n

Volodymyr Zelensky also claimed yesterday that early data suggests Putin deployed a North Korean missile in an attack that killed six people in a Ukrainian village.<\/p>\n

The key cyphers often make little sense, with the newest series including the words BRIBETAKER, SEXFAT or SEXOFAT, MONARCHIST, MOTEL, MUZOPAYUS, STEPENNY and LEVRETKA.<\/p>\n

One message included KLETKA, or \u2018CELL\u2019, while one other used NEDOTEPA, roughly translating as \u2018DIMWIT\u2019.<\/p>\n

A Russian missile and drone barrage across Ukraine killed not less than 10 civilians, including children, overnight, officials said yesterday.<\/p>\n

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The mysterious Cold War relic spewed out a sequence of cryptic messages (Picture: east2west news)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A 33ft-wide crater pictured within the Lublin region of eastern Poland, 56 miles from the Ukrainian border (Picture: Radio ESKA \/east2west news)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NATO scrambled its warplanes after one crossed the country\u2019s western border into Poland leaving a 33ft-wide crater.<\/p>\n

The blitz expanded Russia\u2019s almost every day bombardment of Ukrainian cities, including the capital of Kyiv where tens of hundreds spent the night sheltering in subway stations.<\/p>\n

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte called it \u2018one more reckless act by Russia and a dangerous consequence of its war against Ukraine\u2019.<\/p>\n

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said it was \u2018a really serious incident\u2019, but added: \u2018There are absolutely no reasons to imagine that Poland was the goal.\u2019<\/p>\n

The attack got here two days after Zelensky met with US President Donald Trump and representatives of American defence corporations as a part of a plea for swifter deliveries of air defence systems.<\/p>\n

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The radio \u2013 on air for half a century and nicknamed The Buzzer \u2013 is linked to Russia\u2019s Strategic Forces.<\/p>\n

The\u00a04625 kHz frequency often carries a repetitive buzzing sound, but when a message is shipped, the buzzing stops and a ghostly operator reads out codewords\u00a0in Russian.<\/p>\n

The aim of its messages stays unclear, but they have an inclination to look at times of high tension.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It’s widely believed to form a part of a Russian military command-and-control network, allowing instructions to be transmitted to designated units through one-time codes. <\/p>\n

The precise operator and purpose have never been officially disclosed.<\/p>\n

Bursts of activity may indicate military exercises, readiness tests or operational communications.<\/p>\n

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Russian President Vladimir Putin listens during a gathering on the Kremlin in Moscow (Picture: Alexander Kazakov\/Pool Sputnik K) Vladimir Putin\u2019s notorious \u2018doomsday radio\u2019 crackled into life with a string of codewords after a suspected Russian missile hit NATO territory in Poland. The mysterious Cold War relic spewed out a sequence of cryptic messages hours after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":374721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20691],"tags":[54443,18445,1613,1000,18974,395,10706,20231,19320,4920,813],"class_list":["post-374720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-crackles","tag-doomsday","tag-hits","tag-life","tag-missile","tag-news","tag-poland","tag-putins","tag-radio","tag-russian","tag-world"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t