Voronezh-45 & The story of Russia's Special Nuclear Complexes

In June 2023 a mutiny by the Russian Mercenary Wagner Group vs the Russian Military took place in Rostov-On-Don, Russia.
Wagner Group, are a Private Military Contractor / Mercenary organisation who were led by Russian oligarch Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin. His mutiny was a show of defiance against Russian President Vladimir Putin's incompetent leadership of the Russia/Ukraine War, and the large amount of Russian battle casualties.
At the height of this mutiny, which became headline news in the West; Western mainstream media such as the BBC, CNN and printed media began running a sensationalist story alleging that Prigorshin's Wagner Group Mercenaries had captured or were about to capture the Russian "National Level Nuclear Weapons Storage Facility" at Voronezh-45. They claimed that Wagner, a rogue Mercenary /Terror Organisation would effectively become a nuclear power that could threaten NATO, hold Putin and the West to nuclear blackmail.
Very quickly though this story was proved to be complete fake news, which was allegedly created by the Ukrainian government for propaganda purposes. It was comprehensively debunked by both the Russian Government and the US White House, even by Wagner themselves. But the damage was done in terms of frightening the always nervous western general public, to the threat of nuclear terrorism.
This video examines how the Western MSM outlets were duped into publishing a fake news / propaganda story about Wagner's WMDs, almost exactly 20 years after being duped by the US and British Governments about Saddam Hussein's Iraqi WMDs in 2003. And how so called professional, impartial journalists failed again to conduct basic fact checks before running a sensationalist story. This video, like this whole channel is politically neutral, but reminds viewers clearly to be so very careful what you choose to believe in the US and UK MSM.
In this video we do the MSMs research for them, uncovering the facts of the genesis of the Wagner nuclear story and then a look in detail at Russia's huge Voronezh-45 Nuclear Facility... including how well protected it is compared to the MSM claims it was effectively derelict and abandoned with Russian nuclear weapons 'unprotected'.
Starting at first with the Cold War History of what was once a Soviet Union Special Operations Centre, discovered first by American U2 Spy planes and early Spy Satellites in the early 1960s. We finish with a virtual tour inside a present day Russian 'Theta' Nuclear Storage structure in 2023.
The capture of Russian Federation Nuclear weapons may have been false, but things didn't end well for Yevgeny Prigozhin or his Wagner Group after the mutiny.....with him quickly meeting karma in an 'accident'. His demise is a familiar one if you follow and understand Russian Politics, and has been happening to 'problem people' since the era of Grigori Rasputin......
** This Video is Open Source and does not contain any Classified Material or Grey Source Material - All Sources are listed in end credits. Sorry for the 10 seconds silence mid video , this was due to a KZbin Copyright issue **
Chapters:
00:38 Yevgeny Prigozhin & The Wagner Mutiny
02:06 The Voronezh-45 Media Frenzy
06:25 Soviet Special Operations Centres
00:00 Glasnost and the PNI 1991
13:10 Finding Voronezh-45
16:20 The Voronezh-45 Military Town
21:22 The High Security Rail Yard
24:00 Live Fire Training Area
24:42 The Contingency Heliport
25:49 The Security Battalion & Barracks
27:31 Object 387 - The High Security Area
28:40 Inside a Nuclear Storage 'Theta' Bunker
34:00 Epilogue
#coldwar #nuclearwar #russiaukrainewar #putin #fakenews #russianarmy #politics

[@chriswilkinson1991]

Great video as always. What’s the catchy song at the end?

[@AndyMcloone]

"Улетай на крыльях ветра" (Fly away on the wings of the wind) Taken from the Polovtsian Dances act of the Russian Opera "Князь Игорь" (Prince Igor) kzbin.info/www/bejne/pojPhZKcgq6ibNUsi=peDz-IC8GZ1zy1mU

[@chriswilkinson1991]

@@AndyMcloone thank you

[@cra83]

Probably the most detailed and interesting video I’ve watched in a long time! I’d LOVE more videos like this Andy, keep it up!

[@cannybearsed]

Another superb documentary, Andy. I absolutely love your work and the era of your docs. Excellent work, mate.

[@davidkelly4841]

Thanks Andy, another interesting and broadcast quality documentary, I couldn’t click play quick enough - excellent job!

[@woodsmaneh952]

Love your videos. Well researched and always very fascinating. A great way to forget about my hangover!

[@Retirement_Life]

Yet again, an excellent and very informative video, Andy. Many thanks for you time in producing these…

[@killingtimeitself]

absolutely love these intricate videos detailing this stuff, totally fascinated with this kind of stuff and it's some of the best material out there.

[@irongron]

I lost a rather long relevant comment when the original clip got taken down for review & t's worth informing any subscribers. So here's a reconstruction.The fact of the location of Voronezh-45 being no where near the actual Voronezh is a classic textbook Soviet modus operandi to obfuscate. I've followed Space activities since I was a kid and this reminded me of the same obfuscation when the Soviets founded the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, which was no where near the actual mining town of Baykonur (renamed to the Kazakh name Baiqongyr after the USSR collapsed) . In reality, the Cosmodrome was located 320 km (200 miles) to the southwest at Tyuratam!

[@AndyMcloone]

Sorry about your original comment. It’s been a difficult day with KZbin Today.

[@irongron]

@@AndyMcloone No need to apologise, it's a feature of YT beyond your control. An inadequate implementation of user input restore functions for temporarily unavailable videos.

[@GWNorth-db8vn]

Putin's mansion "in Sochi" is actually 140 km from Sochi, just outside Novorossiysk. They're still doing it.

[@doltsbane]

Those triple fences were a really great security feature. The likelihood of anyone actually trying to sneak into a facility in the middle of the Soviet Union was pretty minimal, but they did make it easy for photographic analysts interpreting reconnaissance images to spot sensitive sites. Essentially the Soviets were drawing circles around anything they didn't want outsiders to look at.

[@mscheuring70]

Loved the video!! I always look forward to the next one.

[@SnorreSelmer]

Excellent video, very informative. Also, I finished The Fourth Protocol today, excellent book, thanks for the recommendation!

[@jan-agelundman5435]

Excellent video once again! Thank you Andy!

[@drupiROM]

Wow, excelent video, the first on this subject i came across, thank you !

[@warlikeplate4407]

Awesome work Andy, loved it, thank-you

[@terminator8334]

Thank you sir. Objective and informative as always 🙏

[@hunty1970]

Thank you Andy, another great video.

[@user-st2bo3be8i]

Brand new sub, thank you for ur well documented educational video. I'm off to check out more vids

[@entropyachieved750]

Great series. Hello from Newcastle Australia

[@bensmith5413]

Great video. Love this format. Looking at various facilities less well known would be great.

[@robinwells8879]

Prigozhin is reported as having stated that he was tired of packaging his young men in zinc caskets whilst the sons of the politicians at home posted Instagrams of their morning makeup routines online. You kind of have to love him for that! I understand that. the Wagner Brigade is more the equivalent of the French Foreign Legion than a simple mercenary army. He was a hot head that wanted to be unleashed to completely overrun Ukraine whereas Putin was happy for the Ukrainian forces to batter themselves to death in well fortified killing fields. I would be interested in hearing your take on the story thus far. Anyway, excellent briefing McLoone! Any questions gentlemen?😂

[@alan-sk7ky]

It ai t me, It aint me, I'm not a fortunate son...

[@orionoutdoorsandworkshop5617]

this whole thing is pretty lame. to what end? what is the goal? there is nothing to gain except resentment from the rest of the world. the days of conquest are over. just a waste of time, resources, infrastructure, money and human lives. pitiful bullshit.

[@killingtimeitself]

to be fair he also headed wagner, so it was kind of his doing, bit of a self report there lmao.

[@JohnoO_O_]

I absolutely love your content bud 👍

[@314299]

That was an excellent and informative presentation! Your content is truly top notch, well done sir!

[@alantaylor353]

Thank you. Subbed & liked & best wishes from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🙏 ❤️

[@AndyMcloone]

Thanks for the sub!

[@PlanetBeanzie]

Andy is a great story teller. Excellent y work

[@theshowmanuk]

Fascinating documentary. Very interesting.

[@mikeoftheclandobson5483]

Outstanding video!!

[@Veritas419]

Another job well done! Entertaining and informative

[@agdgdgwngo]

I love how you put most of the subtitles in Cyrillic.

[@williamruss8157]

Thanks!

[@holgerandersengrn3457]

Once again, thank you for the interesting video. Concerning Prigozhin, the lesson he should have known is that if you initiate a king's murder, you must see it through to the end; if you stop midway, you face dire consequences - as Prigozhin must be labeled an idiot

[@AndyMcloone]

Like Rasputin did with the Imperial Russian court , Prigozhin believed his own hyperbole and in his invincibility …. He was wrong on both counts.

[@jon-paulgrainger1303]

Proper plonker if ever I saw one.

[@AlexKarasev]

Prigozhin's post-mutiny deal was to stay out of Russia. So what the heck was he doing, again, on a jet between Moscow & St. Petersburg?

[@greaseman01]

In an odd way I was bummed when he did I miss him for the entertainment and content.

[@holgerandersengrn3457]

None of them had read Nicolai Machiavelli's The Prince, apparently@@AndyMcloone

[@rachelcarre9468]

Truly excellent content! Big thank you. Did you reupload because of the 'overhanging' audio issue? I couldn't find the BBC report.

[@AndyMcloone]

The re upload is because I accidently set the background sound to 10db for 30 seconds. It was killing people who listen on headphones. I would have had 100s of complaints in the comments.

[@rachelcarre9468]

@@AndyMcloone Yep it got me! :)

[@NickyDekker89]

Great video very interesting. Would love to see one on their submarine bases.

[@bensmith5413]

Your channel is becoming a real gem.

[@owenowen212]

More cracking Cold War content - thank you

[@tdb7992]

I really love your videos Andy - thank you so much for sharing your stories and thoughts with us. I would love to hear your thoughts on Perun's video covering Prigozhin's road trip to Moscow.

[@LMB222]

Excellent, thank you.

[@christycullen2355]

Happy days. Been looking forward to this Cheers for the re-upload

[@SimonWallwork]

Another interesting video. Here's an interesting fact. Embraer has made about 1200 of the jet Prigozhin was in- I have 5,500 hours flying them. This was the first fatal 'accident'- and it happened in the cruise......

[@jamesgornall5731]

Don't carry live weapons in the cargo hold. Here endeth the lesson

[@Nderak]

Well made and interesting!

[@davidrobertson5996]

Great vid, Andy. Liked being able to visualise it through the Polish sites. Good work knocking down some of the red-top hysteria we see in the media.

[@FPoP1911]

Well detailed sane grounded video about a cold war leftovers... and a variation on polovtisian dances? easiest sub.

[@TheSubHunter1]

I know your an army guy but would be interesting to see you do something regarding the Soviet / Russian navy facilities

[@AndyMcloone]

I have some ideas around The Hornets Nest submarine base . And the radioactive ghost fleet in Murmansk. If only I could do KZbin full time. 🤔

[@bubba842]

​@@AndyMclooneVladivostok would be interesting too.

[@TechOne7671]

Superb. Cheers

[@BENLINUZ]

Very interesting I love to learn about these kind of facilities from the Soviet era.

[@dillonhunt1720]

Audio cuts out around 24:23 for 20 seconds. Hope it wasn't something too top secret.

[@AndyMcloone]

KZbin did it... Copyright content ID problem 😒

[@irongron]

@@AndyMcloone I always love an opportunity to use ex-Soviet comedian, Yakov Smirnoff's, "russian reversal" so here goes - IN SOVIET RUSSIA CONTENT COPYRIGHTS YOU! 🙃

[@collinsx62]

Very interesting video

[@atcn3GC]

@19:15 Garazhy is because they didn't produce winter tires. So cars had to be parked for a winter.

[@NigelsWargaming]

Well put together documentary with a logic order to take you through the subject matter.

[@JimCoupeTQ]

I love these videos❤

[@terrydavis8451]

This is amazing. My favorite hobby is looking at Google Earth of Russia and trying to figure out what the obvious military sites are. Please make this a recurring thing.

[@bill8784]

Interesting. Thank you. We had a US manned atom bomb dump on our RAF air base and we infant children in our gang used to try and get as close to the security fence as we could before the soldiers arrived in a jeep. Long time ago.

[@colchronic]

Very good video

[@cascadianrangers728]

I would love to check one of these places out. I have spent way too much time inside and worked in similar American facilities and I am so curious what Russian ones look like. You would expect the U.S stuff to be nicer and better but the Soviets and Russians spare no expense on their nuclear weapons program, its the crown jewl of their military and I bet they are pretty nice. In all the American facilities, I got the sense that nobody designing it ever thought it would be attacked. Soviet facilities always gives me the impression that they thought the facility being nuked was inevitable and that they built things accordingly

[@rich8436]

An outstanding video as all ways mate, but one problem is the sound cut out for me at around 24:20 to about 24:39. I had a quick look at the comments and didn't see anyone that has point it out so I thought I would.

[@AndyMcloone]

Sorry. Muted by KZbin due to a ContentID Claim on the drum beats used 😡

[@rich8436]

@@AndyMcloone OKay, I thought it might have some more info in it. KZbin is a bit... well, dum with that kind of stuff. (puting it mildly) Great video all the same.

[@Fubar684]

Those roads are in much better shape than the rubbish here in California….

[@WilliamAshleyOnline]

what no telsa coils? I could imagine that middle fence being a giant tesla shock projection system :) Also why don't they store launch systems on the grounds wouldn't it make sense to have mobile launchers on site so they could arm them quickly especially if the rail network was inoperative?

[@PaulHirsh]

Weirdly enjoyable video.

[@NorwayT]

Andy Mcloone… You did it again! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This is such brilliant research, editing and presentation that I cannot do anything but sending you a huge KUDOS! Real solid Intel/Osint research! I simply don't watch TV. I haven't watched TV the past 12 years, in spite of having worked as a freelance TV journalist. And I am really laughing when I see your videos! I guy with a bear bones budget puts out better quality Documentaries in one show than big million and billion dollar companies do in a year! You're analysis of the "journalism" of BBC and CNN is absolutely spot on. They really haven't got any journalists these days. Only highly paid morons retweeting BS in their own echo chamber and making stuff up as they go. Despicable. Keep up the GREAT work, Brother! Keep pitching the "pros" to shame!

[@AndyMcloone]

Many Thanks

[@gaborrajnai6213]

I wouldnt be suprised if the real stuff is under the garages...

[@margaretanderson7019]

I’m alarmed at the poorly maintained buildings & the peeling paint. I wonder how much of the nuclear radiation leaks are there that we cannot see smell or touch, it just kills us.

[@dct1]

Very intresting but for me too many adverts interrupting the experience.

[@GeneralWAS]

Very informative video I really enjoyed it, thank you! However it does seem that there is no audio from 24:22 to 24:37. Great video, thanks for all of your dedication to the details.

[@AndyMcloone]

Sorry its a KZbin Copyright content ID problem , over 20 seconds of background drums beats 😒. No point in arguing with Content ID issues, it would keep the video off line for weeks! Its annoying as I lease all my music from Epidemic Sounds.

[@GeneralWAS]

KZbin has gotten extreme for cutting out something so small. Love all of your content, thank you for all the work you put towards these videos.

[@AndyMcloone]

99% of Content ID strikes are due to copyrighted music. There is no 'Fair Use' copyright exemption for music on KZbin, which is fair enough. But it does false positive regularly, and YT will not uphold appeals.

[@alexscarbro796]

Fascinating. I wonder how the advent of drones changes the security methods in these 50+ year old facilities?

[@jamesgornall5731]

Depends if someone actually wants to hit a nuclear facility like that, considering that the results might be worse for the attacker as the attacked.

[@rune9537]

"The Donbas confilct" thats what i call a understatement....

[@ghostindamachine]

Amazing research! I am glad the Russian Federation still does put in effort to keep these kind of MAD weaponry safe.

[@loopymind]

Audio cuts out around 24:23

[@AndyMcloone]

Sorry KZbin Copyright strike

[@loopymind]

@@AndyMcloone seriously? For that small small part??

[@secretagent5954]

ayyyy philadelphia!

[@HappyBear376]

Worth waiting for, thank you.

[@C2K777]

Fella. That comment about a certain person's PJ dropping out the blue( for totally unknown reasons)! 😂

[@C2K777]

And as I try not to edit my own comments I shall make an addition instead. I always had an agreement with my Lady. It was one she encouraged for our own good whilst together & apart: I won't tell you where I'm going, or where I've been. I won't tell you for what. Simply understand that if you're worried about me, simply use the BBC to check. If they say I'm ( or my 'unit') is dead then rest assured I'll be home quicker than you've hoped

[@mostlymessingabout]

Brilliant work Hopefully the Fedsb won't come knocking on your door mate 😅

[@trainingtheworld5093]

The Ukrainians and Reuters lied?! Say it isn’t so!

[@user-ol1qm9ey7g]

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[@markbowles2382]

Prigozhin could be enjoying retirement somewhere - you cant believe anything from media or you tube - if your seeing it - they want you to see it - I must say though its an interesting video (liked and subscribed) - and Im only a few minutes in.

[@-r-495]

it‘s highly doubtful we know everything that occurred during the mutiny. We know that security details who served their nuclear forces were sent to be bagged in Ukraine. Considering their location and obvious risk to be sent to Ukraine we can’t surely state that Budanov was absolutely wrong and all was fine on this base. Interesting walk-around.

[@Dainka2002]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@emagoutard2576]

Caïman via soros?

[@F.A.L.K.O.R]

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[@retkvi]

Not through the whole video, bud sadly to hear, that only nukes can stear the eyebroves of the western audience. Of course Ukrainians can somewhat overcomunicate, or perhaps it was russian game all along. Mad man is making its way trough out Europe, don't know who wants to fight his army other then Ukrainians, and when they will be gone, well...Other countries don't even know how to fight, they have their small professional armies and thats it. He just even started and Baltic states are at risk and who knows who else.