[3] It is located in Shipka in the far south west of Ukraine and was part of the Soviet, and then Russian missile attack warning system.

[5][8] A second generation radar, a Daryal-UM, was started at a different location outside of Mukacheve, 6.7 kilometres (4.2 mi) away, north of the village of Pistryalovo.

[5] In 1991 the Soviet Union collapsed and the station ended up in the newly independent country of Ukraine, together with the radar in Sevastopol.

[10] In 2007, Vladimir Popovkin had stated that Russia intended to duplicate or replace foreign radar stations, as it could not rely on them in times of crisis.

In addition, Russia pointed out that the data from Sevastopol was unreliable due to pirate radio broadcasts from fishing boats in the Black Sea.

[16] Data from Ukraine stopped on 26 February 2009 and Russia declared that a new Voronezh radar station in Armavir had begun operation on the same date, replacing the lost coverage.