What secrets did Russian intelligence discover in the underground bunker in Kiev?
Why did top Ukrainian officials avoid the attack? Russian intelligence finally discovered Kiev's big secret, which was an underground base from the Soviet era.
Báo Khoa học và Đời sống•09/06/2025
The conflict in Ukraine has lasted for nearly three and a half years, during which time the Russian military (RFAF) has carried out more than 100 airstrikes on Kiev. However, not a single high-ranking Ukrainian official has been targeted. From the Ukrainian president to senior government officials, they have always been safe from Russian airstrikes. This was because Russia had no intention of targeting high-ranking Ukrainian officials, and Kiev was an important rear base city before the collapse of the Soviet Union. According to calculations by the Soviet General Staff, when World War III broke out, millions of Soviet troops would launch a large-scale attack on Europe, and Kiev was the most important rear base.
At this time, the US and NATO will bomb Kiev like crazy, even launch a nuclear attack on Kiev. In order to resist the US and NATO air strikes, the Soviet Union built a huge underground fortification system in Kiev. A reporter from Radio Free Europe was able to see the Dniprov air defense bunker, a typical underground bunker on the outskirts of Kiev. The Dniprov bunker was built in the early 1980s to withstand massive enemy air strikes. It has toilets, water tanks, ventilation systems, kitchens, living rooms, and work and recreation areas; it can accommodate at least 350 people. There are at least 500 underground bunkers, each about the size of the Dniprov bunker in Kiev. In addition to this particular bunker, there are at least 6,000 underground spaces in Kiev. The Soviets built underground bunkers in every administrative center, every factory, and every residential area in Kiev. There were even underground factories that produced components for Soviet space equipment. In the west of the city center of Kiev, which is also the area where many high-ranking Ukrainian officials, administrative centers of Ukraine, etc. are located, there is a huge underground base. This is the Bolshevik Mechanical Plant, located on a 35-hectare plot of land, along Peremoshi Avenue and near the Shuravska Metro Station. The Bolshevik Mechanical Plant was built in 1882 under Tsar Alexander III of Russia and has a history of more than 140 years. It was later renovated and expanded by the Soviet Union. At its peak, the factory employed more than 6,000 workers.
Ukrainian authorities described the Bolshevik Mechanical Plant as having closed decades ago, shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, with only 236 workers left and $18 million in debt. But Russian intelligence discovered something unusual: the factory was not only still operating, it was thriving. This story begins with a few propaganda photos. Earlier this year, Ukrainian President Zelensky took NATO Defense Committee Chairman Giuseppe Cavo Dragun on a tour of Ukraine’s underground missile factory. To demonstrate that Ukraine can develop and produce its own cruise and ballistic missiles; the propaganda photos were specially released. However, Russian intelligence analysts have discovered a big secret hidden in Kiev from these photos. Russian experts and spies familiar with historical Soviet buildings, have discovered from the photos, that this is the underground base of the Bolshevik Mechanical Plant in Kiev. The Kiev Bolshevik Mechanical Plant not only did not close, but also became a factory for the production of cruise missiles for Ukraine. There is even an air defense shelter nearby, reserved for high-ranking Ukrainian officials. Even President Zelensky often visits this underground base, to inspect the production of Ukrainian missiles. Having determined exactly, now everything becomes easier, whether it is Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania or Kazakhstan. In the Moscow archives, there are detailed drawings, of important buildings in each republic during the Soviet era.
Russian intelligence agencies used Soviet-era blueprints to identify an underground base inside the Bolshevik Mechanical Plant that hid Ukraine's missile production line and even sheltered senior Ukrainian officials. Russian media said the Russian military had “ended restraint and opened the gates of hell.” Russian hypersonic missiles, in a predawn attack on June 6, hit the Bolshevik Factory in central Kiev, killing at least one senior Ukrainian official. The first wave of Russian attacks was by MiG-31 heavy interceptors, launching Kinzhal hypersonic missiles with speeds 10 times faster than the speed of sound, and the second wave was by Tu-95MS and Tu-95M strategic bombers, launching 36 Kh-101 cruise missiles to attack important targets in Kiev, such as the Kiev Mechanical Plant, Thermal Power Plant, Ukrainian MiG-29 Fighter Repair Plant...
British news agency Reuters, citing sources, said that Russia has not yet responded to Ukraine's attack on strategic airports; the recent airstrikes were just a "warm-up". Meanwhile, US intelligence expects a new large-scale attack on Ukrainian territory in the coming days. Reuters also cited US officials as saying that there would be a combined missile and kamikaze UAV attack, not on defense manufacturing enterprises or military targets, but on the government district in Kiev, to send Kiev a "clear signal". The most likely target is said to be the SBU building. (photo source Sina, Ukrinform, Kyiv Post, Sputnik).
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