Russian authorities in the regions are hiding the scale of attacks on their territory - intelligence

Russian authorities in the regions are hiding the scale of attacks on their territory, the Ukrainian Foreign Intelligence Service reported, writes UNN.

Regional authorities in Russia are massively refusing to turn on sirens during reports of missile or drone danger. The wording varies from region to region, but the essence is the same: attacks have become so frequent that honest information about them would destroy the picture of calm that the Kremlin is trying to maintain at any cost

According to intelligence, "in the temporarily occupied Crimea, the local 'administration' decided not to react to every drone flyover." "Crimean official Oleg Kryuchkov explained this bluntly: if the signal sounded every time, the alarm would not fall silent for 22 hours a day," the statement says.

"In Rostov, the refusal of sirens was justified by the practice of the 'LNR' and 'DNR', where supposedly people run out into the street during alerts, which allegedly doubles the risk of casualties," the intelligence said.

In Yaroslavl, according to the SZRU, "they said directly that sirens are not turned on to avoid panic." "In Krasnodar, they took a different path and divided the signals: 'drone danger' there is officially not equated to civil defense signals, unlike an air raid alert. In the Ryazan region, the explanation sounds even more cynical: frequent sirens will simply cease to be perceived as an emergency signal, so it is better not to touch them at all," the intelligence added.

"In the Moscow suburb of Kotelniki, local authorities went further and refused to even disclose the addresses of shelters and bomb shelters to residents. This information, according to officials, will be communicated to people only 'during the period of mobilization and in wartime' – a wording that in itself reveals how far the Kremlin is pushing back the moment of honesty with its own population," the SZR statement said.

Residents of Moscow and the Moscow region, it is noted, are meanwhile massively complaining about the lack of any alerts and air raid sirens. "The official explanation from the authorities sounds almost like a quote from a propaganda textbook: mass notification in a non-obvious situation is supposedly capable of causing more harm than the threat itself, because it provokes panic and chaos," the statement said.

"The most eloquent comment came from the head of Bashkortostan, Radiy Khabirov. He explained the refusal of daily sirens by the increase in antidepressant consumption in Russia, effectively admitting what the Kremlin has been trying to deny for years: constant attacks are destroying the psychological state of the population, and the authorities are afraid not of drones, but of the people's reaction to the truth about them," the intelligence reported.

In essence, all these explanations boil down to one common denominator: the scale of strikes on Russian territory is already so great that the silence of the sirens has ceased to be a matter of logistics. Now it is a matter of the political survival of a regime that for years has built an image of a war that supposedly does not affect the ordinary Russian

Recall

In Russia, reports of air attacks continue. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed the strike in Voronezh with missiles on a factory producing electronics for Russian Iskander OTRK and Kh-101 missiles.

Also, the General Staff reported on a strike on a space communications center in the Moscow region.

Russia was attacked by drones on the night of June 18 as well. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed the strikes on the Moscow oil refinery and in the Rostov region. He thanked the military of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the strikes deep inside Russian territory, which were carried out by modernized FP-1 drones manufactured by the Ukrainian company Fire Point, and stated that the long-range sanctions plan is being implemented.

Footage has appeared online of Ukrainian FP-1 drones over the Russian capital, which the Pantsir system is unsuccessfully trying to shoot down. This is the second strike on the Moscow oil refinery.

Prior to this, on June 16, in the Moscow region and the Krasnodar Krai of the Russian Federation, attacks by UAVs on oil facilities were recorded. Footage was also posted online showing an FP-1 strike drone, created by the company Fire Point for deep strikes on enemy territory, maneuvering in the sky over Moscow. Analysts point out that the affected oil refinery is located approximately 15 kilometers from the Kremlin.

Also in the Russian Federation, they reported in particular about a drone attack on the Tyumen Oil Refinery (formerly the Antipinsky Oil Refinery).

In addition, Ukrainian military conducted a successful operation to cut off the temporarily occupied Crimea from the mainland part of Ukraine. Using Ukrainian-made middle-strike UAVs, key Crimean bridges near Chongar and Armyansk were struck. The strikes were carried out using FP-2 and "Behemoth" drones. The bridge connecting the Kherson region with Crimea in Chongar was hit twice – on the night of June 6-7, and also on the night of June 9.

On June 8, a bridge leading from Henichesk to the Arabat Spit came under attack. Two more bridges across the North Crimean Canal - in the area of the settlements of Preobrazhenka and Myrne near Armyansk - were attacked on June 11. 

On the night of June 13, the Dzhankoi checkpoint, a railway bridge, and a pontoon crossing were struck. In the video recordings of the strikes, which were shown by the 1st Separate Assault Regiment named after Dmytro Kotsiubailo, instead of a traditional sight, there is a green heart, which is characteristic of strike drones produced by the company Fire Point.