By samya kullab | associated Press
Serebryansky Forest, Ukraine – as a radio crack with enemy communication, a Russian command clearly exits: “Decoction five Chinese tea bags on 38 orange.”
A Ukrainian soldier who is known as Mikhas in the battlefield, who has spent months in hearing and analyzing such nonsense, is able to quickly decod gibeage. This means: Prepare five Beijing-made artillery shells and set them on fire on a specific Ukrainian status in the Serbrenceki forest, which makes the front line in the northeast of the country.
Hiding in the basement of an abandoned house, 12 kilometers (7 miles), Mikhas immediately warns the commander of a unit embedded in that part of the forest, which gives him significant minutes to bring his people into the trenches, saving their lives.
After the two-year war, ammunition and the defensive and severe low of soldiers, Ukrainian forces are rapidly resorting to an old-old strategy-in a desperate effort to preserve intelligence-your most important resources from radio intercepts.
The laborious work is part of a large effort to beef and refine electronic war capabilities so that soldiers can be warned before adjacent attacks, while the intelligence of the battlefield is necessary to make their own attacks more fatal. To prevent enemy drone attacks, signal-zaming is also increasing.
After months of the deadlock with a front line of 1,000 kilometers (621 mi), Ukraine hopes that a Russian enemy expected fierce attacks in the year ahead of the year, which was determined to wear his defense for a success. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that there will be no peace until Russia achieves its goals, including re -incorporating the entire Donbas region of Eastern Ukraine, which was illegally annexed in 2022.
The commander raised the Last week to lead the Ukraine’s army, General Olecasandra Sirski highlighted the importance of electronic war, and the country’s Ministry of Defense has increased the expenditure on people and technology behind it.
Safety
Russia, which controls one-fifth part of Ukraine, has a more developed domestic weapon industry advantage and uses consent and forced to call soldiers.
For Ukraine, the lack of ammunition has forced the brigade to use the shells and only after detecting the exact goals. Difficulty raising soldiers means that Ukrainian commanders should be protective of soldiers’ lives as they try to stop cruel Russian attacks.
It is in the context that better monitoring, evolution and jamming have become more important.
Several kilometers south, where Mikhas is deployed, in the Donnetsk region of Consentinivka, the 93rd brigade’s electronic warfare unit is using jammer to shut down drones, the main driver of injuries to soldiers in the Electronic Warfare Unit area.
The platoon commander is cautious, staring at a laptop that shows the signals raised by the small antenna installed near the front line. When a Russian lenset attack drone approaches the area of their operation, lights their screen with activity.
The commander, known as Olexander on the battlefield, flipped a switch to activate the jammar that interferes with the radar of the drone; This is equivalent to bright light in someone’s eye that is to wander them.
“It is a necessity,” he says about his operation. “A lot of people are dying due to drones.”
Radio operators such as Mikhas work in changes around the clock.
The antennas that he depends on the Russian radio signals is covered, coming out of the trees in the forest near Kremininnah near Russian positions. From a cool basement command center nearby, Mikhas and other soldiers listen to chain smoke cigarettes and headphones.
A new and sophisticated signal-fisting antenna, which resembles a carousel, uses a triangle to find out where the radio waves are leaving.
They cross-references what they hear against images that they gather from the reconnaissance drone and use a wide map of their enemy positions, slowly to pieces together.
He is part of a 50-man intelligence unit, dubbed the Banis of Cherkes-Inspired by the Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu, who advised the warriors to advise the weakness to weakness when he was strong.
“Nobody takes Banni seriously, right?” Cherkes said, Commander of a unit named.
Radio intercepts suggest that the Kremlin is firm to control the entire Serbriski forest, which divides the Ukraine-controlled Lyman by Russian-Quiz Kreminnah. It is part of the attempt to reach Torske, a village in Donnetsk to the west of Kreeninna. From Torske, Russia would be close to regaining the hub near Liman, which would be a devastating blow to Ukraine and will disrupt the supply to move the front.
Decoding order
Cherkes and his people, most of whom are volunteers, who signed up for the infantry, understand that bets may not be too much, especially as signs increase that support from Western colleagues is less safe.
After listening to hours and hours of Russian communication each day, most of its parts belong to Trup rotation, Artillery Fire and Drone Rethinance, they gently create an understanding – with the help of special computer software – what means.
“Cucumbers” are mortars, “carrots” are grenade launchers – and locations are expressed with a related color in a numeric code. It took the month of the unit to decode these Russian orders. The arrival of new fighter equipment and ammunition – and especially the people of the infantry – a fresh attack is adjacent.
“(A soldier) is not interested in what kind of radar Russians have, he needs information about whether there will be an attack tonight, and who will come, if they will have tanks, if they have a armored vehicle or if it is just an infantry,” Chercas said.
“And we have to understand how long we have to prepare. One week? Two weeks? One month?”
He said that the advance word of enemy soldiers is being rotated inside and out, which is also useful for Ukrainian soldiers. This is when they can accurate the loss of maximum personnel.
Last week, a Russian attack operation was carried out against a neighboring brigade. But Ukrainian soldiers deployed there, were ready to congratulate them.
Keep forward
The importance of electronic monitoring cannot be underestimated, said Yukraine’s CEO Yaroslav Kalinin, CEO, CEO, a company under a contract with the Ministry of Defense.
Prior to the war, Infozahyst provided anti-wiring services for the offices of the President and the Prime Minister. Once the war began, the company published to help the army by creating a versatile signal direction search system, which is now in high demand.
According to Kalinin, the government recently doubled its contract with the Inforest.
The construction of monitoring capabilities is a recognition of partially the need to catch Russians, who invested heavily in this technique long before attacking Ukraine.
Kalinin believes that better and small tools that are easy to hide and move around, eventually give Ukraine a lead.
The Russians know that they are being heard and an attempt is being made to cheat their enemy with fake information regularly. It is dependent on Mikhas and other radio operators to indicate noise.
“His artillery helps us,” he explained. “They say where they will shoot, and then we will check where the shells landed.”
“38 Orange,” the location Mikhas has recently heard for an upcoming attack, a small dot depicted on a map. And it is surrounded by hundreds of other dots that reflect places they have decoded.
“We need a lot of time to highlight these points,” he said.
And, as Russia increases pressure, the clock is ticking.