Putin's 'Doomsday Radio' spews coded messages as NATO leaders meet
As NATO bigwigs met in The Hague this week to discuss the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin's enigmatic 'Doomsday Radio' has kicked off a flurry of cryptic coded messages.
World leaders, including British PM Keir Starmer, Ukrainian leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, and US President Donald Trump, met for some serious discussions in The Hague with the Ukrainian crisis at the forefront. Putin seems to have had his say as Russia's UVB-76 station, the notorious 'The Buzzer', went into overdrive.
This Cold War relic usually gets chatty during global political tension peaks.
'The Buzzer' is a shady operation that's all about high-stakes comms tests, nuclear drill signals, or military once-overs. It's also believed to be tied in with training drills for Russia's Strategic Missile Forces or the General Staff big wigs.
The general public can't make heads or tails of it since cracking those codes needs top-secret keys, but it sure sparked theories - like a failsafe 'dead man's switch' ready to hit back if nukes start flying.
Amongst the code words translated from Russian in today's reports are 'Narcissus, Blooming, Meticulous, Caviar, Cognac, Sweetness and Lisbon', with additional words appearing to be gibberish.
Just this week, the mysterious Doomsday radio was heard broadcasting the term Otniatiye - translating to 'taking away' in its native Russian, implying the removal of life or hope. The station is known to become more active correlating with significant phone discussions about the Ukraine conflict between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.
The enigmatic signal, which needs neither the internet nor satellites for transmission, emanates from a tower thought to be situated northwest of Moscow within an area that remained off-limits during the Cold War period.
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