Sevastopol governor: people sharing footage of Russia’s air defence systems working will face ‘interaction with security services’

Access to CCTV footage has been restricted for civilians in Crimea’s Sevastopol, the Russia-installed governor Mikhail Razvozhayev says.

Razvozhayev also threatened people posting footage of Russia’s air defence systems working with “interaction with security agencies.” He asked not to do so multiple times before, he says.

“Our secretive agencies will investigate certain footage which helps our opponent locate the city’s air defence systems. The time for suasion is over. Work will be done against those who still don’t get it,” he said.

Unmanned aerial vehicles attacked the ships of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in the Sevastopol Bay near Crimea earlier today. “Today, starting 4.30 a.m., various air defence systems repelled UAV attacks in Sevastopol for several hours, all were taken down,” Razvozhayev wrote. He also added that this was the largest attack on Sevastopol since the start of the “special military operation.”

Razvozhayev reported a drone attack on the Balaklava thermal power plant in Sevastopol on Thursday. “A transformer that was out of service caught fire. By the time the emergency services arrived at the station, there was no open fire,” he stated. According to the governor, the transformer sustained minimal damage. No one was injured.

A “medium level of alert” was introduced on the territories of Crimea, Sevastopol, as well as the Krasnodar, Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kursk, and Rostov regions by Vladimir Putin on 19 October.