Ukraine Hits Dubna Space Communications Center, Russia’s Largest Satellite Teleport
Ukraine’s General Staff said heavy smoke rose after the strike, and damage to the dual-use facility is still being assessed.
- Ukraine's Defense Forces struck the Dubna Satellite Communications Center in Moscow Oblast on Sunday and overnight into Monday, June 22, 2026, with the General Staff confirming heavy smoke at the facility.
- Established in 1980 for the Moscow Summer Olympics, the facility originally broadcast live television coverage across Europe and the Atlantic before becoming Russia's largest satellite teleport.
- Operating as a dual-use facility, the site manages telemetry for the Express-series civilian satellite fleet while supporting military and state security functions, utilizing more than two dozen antennas including the original Soviet TNA-57 dishes.
- Television broadcasting and communications have not been disrupted, and the company's press service confirmed that personnel were not harmed, though the full scale of damage is still being assessed.
- Beyond the Olympics, the location gained strategic importance during the Cold War by hosting secure government communication channels historically connecting the Kremlin with Washington, Paris, and London.
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Ukraine attacked the space communication center Dubna in the Russian region of Moscow on the night of Monday, confirmed by the Ukrainian General Staff.
The Ukrainian army announced that it had carried out an attack on a Russian satellite communications centre located in the city of Dubna, in the Moscow region. According to the Ukrainian Military Staff, the incident targeted an infrastructure considered strategic for Russian military communications systems, broadcasts Ukrainian publication Ukrainianska Pravda.
Ukrainian drones damaged the Dubna space communications center near Moscow on Monday night. The drone strike also hit a training center for drone operators in the occupied Luhansk region.
On June 21 and on the night of June 22, units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces attacked the objects of the Russian aggressor.
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