Ukrainian forces hit Russia’s Dubna satellite communications centre for the second time, says Volodymyr Zelenskyy

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Ukraine just reached 500+ kilometres deep into Russia.

Again.

And it picked a target most people have never heard of — but Moscow absolutely needs.

The Dubna Satellite Communications Centre.

Hit on June 22.

Hit again today.

Zelenskyy called it what it really is:

👉 "Long-range sanctions."


🛰️ Why Dubna? Why now?

This isn't some random radar dish in a field.

Dubna has been humming since 1980 — originally built to beam the Moscow Olympics to the world.

It later carried the Cold War hotlines between the Kremlin, Washington, and Europe.

Today? It's Russia's largest ground station linking terrestrial networks to satellites in orbit.

And according to Kyiv, it's also doing something far less glamorous:

  • 📡 Coordinating Russian occupation forces inside Ukraine
  • 🛰️ Feeding reconnaissance from space to the front line
  • 📞 Stitching together military comms across time zones

Knock it out — even partially — and Russia's war machine loses an eye.


🔥 The pattern is the story

This is the second Dubna strike in eight days.

Last week's hit damaged an antenna system and nearby infrastructure, confirmed by satellite imagery.

Today's strike doubled down on the same target.

And Dubna isn't alone.

Zelenskyy says Ukraine has now reached four Russian space-comms centres — across the Moscow and Vladimir regions.

This isn't improvisation. It's a checklist.


⚡ The bigger shift

Four and a half years into this war, Ukraine has quietly rewritten the rulebook.

  • 🎯 No more "border skirmishes"
  • 🚁 Long-range drones flying past Moscow's suburbs
  • 💥 660 drones launched in a single overnight wave on June 26, per Russia's own defence ministry

The message is brutally simple:

Nothing in European Russia is too far. Nothing is too sacred.


🧠 The 40-day plan

Last week, Zelenskyy quietly approved a 40-day campaign designed to "influence" Russia into ending the war.

Not through diplomacy.

Through pressure points.

Energy infrastructure. Military logistics. And now — the satellites that make the invasion possible.

Kyiv is no longer trying to push Russia back at the front.

It's trying to make the war too expensive to keep running from the rear.


🌊 The takeaway

Dubna isn't just a building.

It's a symbol of how this war has changed.

In 1980, it broadcast the Olympics to the world.

In 2026, it's the thing Ukraine keeps blowing holes in to remind Moscow that deep doesn't mean safe anymore.

The front line of this war isn't a line.

It's a map.

And Kyiv keeps adding new pins to it.

That's all for now!