🛰️ The Night the Sky Was Full
Four Days of Drones, Missiles, and the End of Illusion
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Dispatch No. 25-0528-EX
Issued: May 28, 2025
Classification: SPECIAL ESCALATION REPORT
Subject: Escalation, Saturation, and the End of Illusion
How May 25–28 Became the Most Dangerous Days of the War
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🔥 Summary:
Between May 25–28, 2025, Ukraine and Russia exchanged six major homeland-level strikes in four days. Drone swarms, cruise missiles, strategic radar hits, and retaliatory barrages lit up the skies from Moscow to Mykolaiv.
This isn’t just escalation. It’s the formal entrance into doctrinal, system-level warfare, where defense grids, infrastructure, and psychological thresholds are now the battlefield.
🕵️ Assassination Attempt on Putin: A Disputed Prelude
Date: Report emerged May 26
Alleged Incident: A Russian military commander claimed a Ukrainian drone attempted to strike President Putin’s helicopter over the Kursk region on May 201. The drone was allegedly shot down before impact.
No independent evidence or video confirmation has surfaced.
Ukraine denies involvement. Russian sources say Putin was unharmed.
Implication:
This could be a narrative tool for escalation. Whether real or fabricated, invoking an attempt on Putin’s life triggers state doctrine thresholds for broader retaliation and internal mobilization.
🇺🇦 Ukraine’s Escalation: The Attempt to Break Russia’s Homeland Defenses
🚁 Strike 1: Operation Overload — 350–500 Drones Toward Moscow
Date: Night of May 25–26
Target: Moscow, Kaluga, Bryansk, Tula, radar near Tver
🇺🇦 Ukraine launched 350–500 drones, aiming to overwhelm Russia’s tiered air defense grid2 3.
🎯 Targets included outer radar belts and Moscow industrial zones.
🔥 At least 9 drones reached Moscow oblast; fires and transport disruption followed.
🛡️ Russian MoD said they repelled “most,” but air defenses were tested4.
Implication:
This was a calculated attempt to overload Russia’s tiered air defense system, using mass to map gaps and force ISR redirection away from the front.
📡 Strike 2: Strategic Radar Strikes in Bryansk and Tver
Date: Late May 25
Target: Long-range radar installations and early-warning systems
💥 Ukrainian loitering munitions struck nuclear-era radar nodes.
🛰️ Satellite images confirmed antenna loss and charred relay stations.
📡 Targeted assets are linked to Russia’s strategic early-warning network5.
Implication:
Ukraine crossed a doctrinal red line by striking components of Russia’s strategic deterrence infrastructure, potentially invoking retaliatory escalation clauses.
🇷🇺 Russia’s Twin Retaliations: Strategic Shock & Saturation
💣 Strike 3: May 25–26 — Largest Russian Aerial Attack of the War
Date: Night of May 25–26
Target: Kyiv, Lviv, Kharkiv, Odesa, Mykolaiv
🚀 Russia launched 367 aerial weapons: Shahed drones, Kalibr, and Kh-101 cruise missiles6.
🏭 Targets included power substations, military bunkers, and railway controls.
⚰️ At least 13 civilians killed, including 3 children.
🔌 Rolling blackouts followed in Kharkiv and Vinnytsia.
Implication:
This was a strategic saturation attack, aiming to both retaliate and deplete Ukraine’s air defense capacity ahead of follow-up strikes.
🏭 Strike 4: Defense Plant & Infrastructure Offensive
Date: May 27
Target: Defense production, missile component plants, drone factories, EW hubs
🏭 Strikes hit multiple defense production sites, including missile component facilities, drone factories, and electronic warfare hubs7.
🛰️ Secondary targets included satellite communications relays, suggesting a shift into space-linked warfare operations.
📢 Russian state media framed the operation as “measured retaliation for attacks on Russian civilian areas”8.
Implication:
This marked a pivot toward deep industrial war — crippling Ukraine’s long-term production capabilities and degrading its intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) infrastructure.
🔍 The Fifth Strike You Didn’t Hear About
🔥 Strike 5: Khmelnytskyi Ammunition Depot Detonation
Date: May 20
Target: NATO-stockpiled munition warehouse
🎯 Russia struck a deep-storage facility holding Storm Shadow, Taurus, and GLSDB.
🌋 Hours of secondary explosions recorded on satellite and seismic arrays.
🚫 Ukraine confirmed damage but withheld details on munitions lost9.
Implication:
A preemptive denial strategy — Moscow intends to strike at incoming long-range NATO munitions before they ever reach the front.
🌩️ May 27–28: Escalation Continues
🛫 Ukraine’s Third Drone Swarm on Moscow
Date: Night of May 27–28
Target: Airports, radar facilities, military depots
🛸 Nearly 300 drones launched, 100+ intercepted near Moscow10.
🛑 Vnukovo and Zhukovsky airports suspended flights.
🏭 Fires reported in industrial zones near Podolsk.
Implication:
Ukraine doubled down on its saturation strategy. These strikes test whether Russia’s air defenses can maintain 24/7 perimeter integrity, or will buckle under prolonged swarming.
🎯 Russia’s May 27–28 Retaliatory Strike
Target: Forward airbases, logistics hubs, and command centers
☠️ Russia launched 88 Shahed drones and 6 missiles (Iskander-M, Kh-59).
🧱 Explosions confirmed in 8 Ukrainian oblasts, including Khmelnytskyi and Dnipro.
🛰️ Many targets were command & control sites, not just infrastructure11.
Implication:
Russia is now on a rotating blackout and degradation cycle — targeting energy, radar, and railways on a loop to reduce Ukraine’s maneuverability and real-time comms.
🔮 What Happens Now?
Ukraine May:
Launch a fourth drone swarm toward Moscow or St. Petersburg.
Target Russia’s oil and logistics infrastructure, including refineries and railway chokepoints.
Seek direct NATO ISR coordination, especially for radar-targeting and battlefield AI.
Russia May:
Extend its blackout rotation to include civil telecoms and space-based comms.
Strike NATO-linked logistics hubs in border nations if further provoked.
Announce a revised rules of engagement, citing homeland strike doctrine.
🧨 Conclusion
May 25–28 was not an escalation. It was an operational shift into a new war phase — where doctrine, deterrence, and infrastructure are the battlefield.
Two capitals. Five strikes. Billions in burned ordinance. And no pause in sight.
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You do not mention other important events reported at that time: radiostation UR74 has transmitted "хрюкостяг", "беззлобие" and goverment's aircrafts flyed towards sequred centers deep in russian territory.
I was surprised when a state media channel (1tv) did not discuss the "Assassination attempt on President VVP when it was first reported! I kept silent as well since I did not have anything to back this claim...