Russia refuses to activate air raid sirens during attacks for absurd reasons, intelligence says

In temporarily occupied Crimea, the so-called administration decided not to respond to every drone flight at all. They explained that if the sirens were constantly activated, the air raid alert on the peninsula would not stop for 22 hours a day.

In Rostov, officials justified the lack of notifications by citing the experience of the occupied territories of Donbas. Local administration claims that the sound of sirens allegedly forces people to run outside, which supposedly doubles the risk of casualties.

In Yaroslavl, local authorities admitted that they do not activate the sirens to avoid panic among the population. Meanwhile, in Krasnodar, the officials took the path of division of threats: the "drone danger" there has officially been refused classification as part of civil defense warning signals.

The leadership of the Ryazan region explained their actions by claiming that too frequent alerts would devalue the emergency signal, and people would eventually stop responding to it.

Meanwhile, in Kotelniki near Moscow, officials went even further, refusing to disclose the locations of bomb shelters. Residents were promised this information only in the event of mobilization or during wartime.

The most telling statement came from the head of Bashkortostan, Radiy Khabirov. He directly linked the refusal to activate sirens to a sharp increase in the consumption of antidepressants among the Russian population. In doing so, the official effectively admitted that constant air attacks are damaging the psychological state of Russians, and the authorities fear the people's reaction to the truth more than the drones.

The psychological state of Russians and the Kremlin's fear

Residents of Moscow and the Moscow region regularly complain online about the complete lack of notifications during drone attacks.

In response, authorities claim that mass alerts in ambiguous situations can cause more harm than the threat itself by provoking chaos.

"In fact, all these explanations boil down to one common factor: the scale of the strikes on Russia’s territory has become so great that the silence of the sirens is no longer a matter of logistics. Now it is a matter of the political survival of the regime, which for years has been building an image of a war that supposedly does not affect ordinary Russians," the intelligence service notes.

Over the weekend, the Ukrainian Armed Forces carried out a series of large-scale strikes on Russian military infrastructure in occupied Crimea. Gas distribution stations, oil terminals, air defense systems, and enemy logistical hubs came under fire.

At the same time, systematic attacks on Russia’s fuel and energy sector are increasingly having a noticeable impact on its economy. According to media reports, drone strikes are destroying significant volumes of fuel in Russia, disrupting contracts, and fuel depot owners along with their partners are increasingly turning to the courts over the loss of hundreds of tons of gasoline and diesel.