Re:The phones of Ukrainian president Zelensky
by jacquesm on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @10:29AM
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You may well be looking at an instance of 'parallel construction', at the time that article was written it was not yet known that the NSA had passed information regarding the sat phone to the Russians. I do believe that the plane was already airborne at the time the call was initiated because the Russians were on one side of that call and made a play for peace talks keeping him on the phone longer than would have happened otherwise.
> The Russians did have the technology to track a satellite phone call but Dudayev never spoke long enough on the phone for a plane to get airborne and find him to launch an attack.
> A Russian unit on the ground, however, did identify the gully as a place which Dudayev visited and planted a booby trap bomb there.
> A combination of events leading up to Dudayev's death worked well in favour of the Russians.
> When Dudayev made his fateful call from the gully, a plane was already airborne.
> Once it was known that Dudayev was in the gully, the booby trap bomb was detonated and moments afterwards a rocket hit its target.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/325347.stm