Ukraine claims to have invented a new radio that's immune to Russian jamming

• Ukraine says it's devised a radio that's resistant to Russian radio jamming.
• Russia's electronic warfare has hampered Ukrainian comms and missile guidance throughout the war.

Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov announced on Tuesday the launch of radio technology that "cannot" be blocked by Russian jamming.

Fedorov, who also serves as Ukraine's Minister for Digital Transformation, wrote on Telegram that the Himera radio is "a unique technology that works despite enemy electronic warfare," according to Ukrainska Pravda's translation.

"The Russians cannot block the radio's signals or decrypt it," he said, adding: "The radio can also be integrated into a situational awareness system or used as a GPS tracker to search for and evacuate soldiers."

Russia's electronic warfare capabilities have long proved a thorn in Ukraine's side, as Michael Peck previously reported for Insider.

Russia has managed to achieve "real time interception and decryption" of the Motorola walkie-talkie systems in widespread use by Ukraine, according to a May report by the Royal United Services Institute.

This, Insider reported, has allowed it to pre-emptively respond to radioed communications about Ukrainian attacks.

A Ukrainian team of engineers exhibited the Himera radio at an expo in London in September.

Not quite echoing Fedorov's claim of total immunity to Russian radio jamming, the exhibit's notes say that the device has "a Low Probability of Detection, Low Probability of Interception, a high degree of data encryption, and protection against communication jamming."

Insider was unable to independently verify the technology's effectiveness.

The device holds a battery charge of up to four days, the manufacturers say. According to Euromaidan press, Ukrainian soldiers are already using them on the front lines.