On the night of June 4, the head of the republic, Sergei Aksyonov, said that the Crimea was attacked by nine drones. With the help of the air defense system, five drones were shot down, and four more were “silenced and deployed” by electronic warfare. According to Aksenov, no one got hurt.
“As a result of the crash of one of the UAVs, the windows of three privately owned houses and two cars in the city of Dzhankoy were broken,” Aksenov wrote on the Telegram channel.
He added that an unexploded drone was found on the grounds of a private house. “50 people were evacuated to a temporary accommodation facility before it was cleared of mines,” the governor said.
Aksyonov urged residents to remain calm and rely only on reliable sources of information.
Oleg Kryuchkov, adviser to the President of Crimea, reported that a drone was shot down at night in Dzhankoy. He mentioned that the windows were damaged in several houses in the private sector.
Citing local residents, the publication Rise reported that the drone explosion occurred late at night.
“It was not yet half past four, and I was awakened by a great thud. Cotton with ears as pawns. They were scared, it turned out to be a downed drone. “Our three doors are bent, there are cracks in the windows, but this is not critical,” he said.
Crimean authorities last reported the destruction of drones on May 25. Aksyonov later reported that six drones were shot down during the night. Dzhanköy was also attacked by drones this year. Later, a private house and a grocery store were damaged, and a 33-year-old local resident received shrapnel wounds. The city declared a state of emergency at the municipal level.
Citizens also drop drones
Governor Mikhail Razvozhaev said that in early June one of the Sevastopol residents shot down a drone with a camera “by improvised means”. Idaniya RBC asked the governor’s press service how exactly the drone was shot down.
“According to the information received from the special services, they replied by “throwing a stick” there.
The man threw him into a drone and shot him. The drone was equipped with only one camera, no explosives on it.
In early May, Crimea and Sevastopol were attacked and hit by more than ten drones. One device lost control and fell into a forest belt, the second was hit over the sea near Cape Khersones, and the third was hit above the sea near the North Pier, Razvozhaev reported. In early February, an indefinitely high (“yellow”) level of terrorist threat was set in Crimea. The “moderate response” regime has been in effect in the region since October 2022.
Regions began to impose bans on drones for safety reasons as early as 2022. Until May 29, 56 regions of Russia had banned the use of unmanned aerial vehicles. In Crimea, such a ban has been in effect since August 2022.
Russian authorities are also actively exploring possible ways to counter drone attacks. In particular, on May 31, Artyom Sheikin, a member of the Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building of the Federation Council, proposed that non-state security structures be given the right to shoot down drones while protecting objects not protected by law enforcement.