Russia's 'Doomsday Radio' gets active after US strikes on Iran, sends out coded messages
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Russia's Doomsday Radio (UVB-76) suddenly became active again, sending out weird coded messages after the United States struck nuclear sites in Iran. The mysterious messages broadcast by the UVB-76 radio station were PANIROVKA, KLINOK, and BOBINA.Doomsday Radio has a long history and is known for sending secret, coded and cryptic messages. The exact meaning of the messages transmitted by the radio station is not known to anyone with rumours claiming that these are meant for the Russian armed forces.The UVB-76 radio station is believed to be a numbers station operated by the Russian military, according to independent news website Meduza. Many experts claim that the secret messages are linked to nuclear or military communications. The radio station mostly gets active during a war or a crisis.Several Western media outlets have often linked the radio station to Moscow's Dead Hand system, capable of launching an automated nuclear retaliatory strike in case Russia is under attack.This is probably the third time this radio station, also known as Buzzer, Judgement Day Radio, has gotten active in 2025. Last time the ' doomsday radio station ' got active in May and June and started broadcasting cryptic messages during President Vladimir Putin's telephone call with US President Donald Trump.According to Metro UK, the radio station initially started to broadcast the apparent code 'NZhTI 89905 BLEFOPUF 4097 5573' ahead of the White House call in May 2025. Later it followed up with 'NZhTI 01263 BOLTANKA 4430 9529.'UVB-76 is Russia's most famous number station. It has been broadcasting since the mid-1970s. The station usually transmits white noise, and sometimes it is interrupted by short messages carrying numbers and seemingly unrelated words (often names), the first letters of which spell out specific words, according to Meduza. Each transmission starts with a callsign, made up of the first letters of names or words.
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