Residents of Moscow and the Moscow Region Complained About the Drone Attack Alert System

Residents of Moscow and the Moscow Region complained about the drone attack alert system

In Moscow and the Moscow region, which on June 18 came under the largest Ukrainian drone attack since the start of the full-scale war, no warnings about a drone threat were sent out.

“There are no text messages, no sirens. All the info is in local chats, and there’s much more information there than on TV,” one reader wrote to Meduza. He said he lives in southeastern Moscow. It is in this part of the city that the Moscow Oil Refinery is located, where a major fire broke out after the drone strike.

Podyom writes that in Ramenskoye, Kotelniki, and Krasnogorsk, residents learned about the threat only when they saw drones flying overhead or the destruction.

In the Kotelniki administration, not far from where the Moscow Oil Refinery is located, residents were told that they are not responsible for turning on alert systems — this is done centrally by the Emergency Situations Ministry.

Officials also said they would not disclose the locations of shelters to residents — “it will be communicated to the population during mobilization and in wartime.” Formally, as Meduza has repeatedly written, mobilization has not ended.

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