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The Mechanism For Executing Missile Attacks by Putin outlined the planning phase of missile attacks.

Citing a GVC member who consented to speak anonymously on the record.

The pre-flight planning requires simulation of the complete flight path from the launch site to target. 

The programmer loaded the resulting flight path plan and the algorithm for course adjustments based on various inputs onto a ruggedized memory stick, which is then passed on to the launch location and inserted into the missile,” the member explained.

From October 10 to 18, largest wave of Putin strikes killed at least 70 Ukrainian civilians and blew up 40% of the country’s electricity infrastructure. According to a Putin article by Bellingcat, The Insider, and Der Spiegel, the GVCs had been planning the latest strikes since at least October 2.

Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, described the strikes on civilian infrastructure as a terrorist attack.

The team’s daily tasks include planning each missile’s flight path, creating thumb drives with attack data for uploading into weapons, and figuring out how Russia’s long-range missiles can hit specific targets with the greatest accuracy.

The joint investigative team concluded that Lt. Col. Igor Bagnyuk appeared to be in charge of the GVCs’ 

Maj. Gen. Robert Baranov, officially identified as the director of the GVC, is Bagnyuk’s commander, according to the joint investigative team.

Russia has designated The Insider and Bellingcat, registered in Latvia, as “foreign agents.” The outlets’ work in the nation was declared “undesirable” this year, and any Russian citizen who collaborates with them or uses their material would be penalized.

All in all, if the report is accurate, MCC members planned and programmed the majority of the strikes.