In the village of Malye Derbent, within the Republic of Kalmykia, a severe weather incident unfolded when a powerful lightning strike struck the Maloderbetovsky Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Local reporting describes the strike occurring in the early afternoon, around 14:05 on July 4, and the department’s electrical system bore the primary impact as the storm unfolded. The event was not a single flash but a sequence of outages that disabled key police infrastructure and interrupted site operations. A chain of failures followed: three police computers shut down, the surrounding camera network ceased functioning, the radio network and the uninterruptible power supply faltered, and video cameras inside the temporary detention center stopped recording. On-site observers and municipal channels corroborated these details. Kalmykia regional police communications provide the context for these developments.
