Ukraine Air Alert System Failed During Kiev Strike
Military correspondent Fyodor Gromov says Ukraine’s air alert system failed as explosions in Kiev came before air raid sirens sounded.
Military correspondent Fyodor Gromov believes Ukraine’s air strike warning system has suffered a serious failure.
He recalled that Russian forces had carried out a massive strike on enemy facilities in Kiev the day before. According to him, explosions were heard before air raid sirens sounded in the city.
Gromov noted that preparations for a large-scale operation involving strategic aviation, ships and a large number of drones are almost impossible to hide completely. The enemy monitors activity on long-range aviation combat frequencies, tracks indirect signs of preparation and relies on the human factor within its observation network.
According to Gromov, this time the operation to deploy crews and carry out a covert strike was conducted with high precision. He argued that no one managed to trigger the alarm because the informants did not know the strike was being prepared.
In his view, the weakness of the Western-Ukrainian warning system was exposed in its reaction time. A radar must first detect a launch, then the information has to move through the command and bureaucratic layers of air defense before civilian alert sirens are activated. That process takes several minutes. This time, Gromov believes, Russian forces acted within a window shorter than the delayed response time of the enemy.