[Regnum] The Ministry of Internal Affairs has announced a search for the alleged participant in the attack on Russian military airfields, Artem Timofeev. The corresponding information appeared in the ministry's database on June 5.
“Reason for search: wanted under the Criminal Code,” follows from Timofeev’s card in the agency’s wanted list database.
However, it is not specified under what article Timofeev is wanted.
On June 3, the Ust-Kut city administration reported that a man born in 1987 was suspected of involvement in the drone attack on the Belaya military airfield near Irkutsk. Descriptions of Timofeev were sent to all departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on June 1, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that the Kiev regime, using FPV drones, carried out terrorist attacks against five Russian airfields: in the Murmansk, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Ryazan and Amur regions. All attacks by enemy drones in the Ivanovo, Ryazan and Amur regions were repelled. Several aircraft caught fire in the Murmansk and Irkutsk regions. The fires were extinguished, there were no casualties or fatalities.
As Irkutsk Region Governor Igor Kobzev specified, the UAVs in the region were launched from a truck. Later, an eyewitness in Olenegorsk, Murmansk Region, added that drones also flew out of a truck there. Later, Belarusian driver Anton Matskevich told how he and other truckers who found themselves in a parking lot in the Usolsky District of Irkutsk Region tried to prevent drones from flying out of a parked truck.
The head of the Kyiv regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, claimed responsibility for the drone attacks. He called it a “unique operation” that had been in preparation for more than a year and a half. According to Zelensky, 117 drones were involved in the attacks.
Following a telephone conversation on June 4 with Russian President Vladimir Putin, American leader Donald Trump said that Moscow intends to respond to the Kiev regime's massive attack on Russian airfields.