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title: "The Silence of Sirens: Why Russian Authorities Refuse to Warn Citizens of Air Raids"
description: "Russian authorities are massively refusing to activate air raid sirens. From Crimea to Bashkortostan, officials explain this by the desire to avoid panic and the rise in antidepressant consumption. Intelligence calls this an attempt to hide the reality of war from the population. 🚨🇷🇺📉"
date: 2026-06-22T15:46:00.000Z
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# The Silence of Sirens: Why Russian Authorities Refuse to Warn Citizens of Air Raids

![White loudspeakers on a metal pole against a clear blue sky, symbolizing the silence of sirens in Russia](https://xab.info/media/2026/06/22/mолчanie-siren-otkaz-vlastey-opovechat-o-vzryvah/mолчanie-siren-otkaz-vlastey-opovechat-o-vzryvah-1.webp)

In several regions of Russia, there is a systematic refusal by authorities to activate warning sirens during air raids. As reported by RBK-Ukraine citing data from the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), the reasons for this behavior range from bureaucratic to psychological, but they all boil down to one thing: the authorities fear the population's reaction to the reality of the war.

### "Air Raid Alert for 22 Hours a Day"

The most radical approach was demonstrated by the so-called "administration" of temporarily occupied Crimea. Officials on the peninsula decided not to react to drone overflights at all. The official explanation sounds paradoxical: if sirens were activated for every drone launch, the air raid alert in Crimea would not cease for 22 hours a day. In fact, this is an admission that the threat has become constant and background.

### Panic and the "Donbas Experience"

In other regions, the argumentation is based on the fear of panic. In Rostov-on-Don, officials justified the refusal to issue warnings by citing the "experience of the occupied territories of Donbas." According to them, the sound of sirens allegedly forces people to run out into the street, which hinders security measures and, in their opinion, doubles the risk of casualties.

In Yaroslavl, local authorities went even further and openly admitted that the signaling systems are not activated solely to avoid panic among the population. In the Ryazan region, the leadership justified their actions by stating that too frequent alarms would devalue the emergency signal, and people would eventually stop reacting to it.

### Bureaucracy and Hiding Shelters

In Krasnodar, officials chose the path of bureaucratic separation of threats: they officially refused to equate "drone danger" with civil defense signals. And in Kotelniki, near Moscow, the authorities went even further — they refused to publish the addresses of bomb shelters and shelters. Residents were promised that this information would only be provided in the event of mobilization or during wartime.

### Khabyrov's Admission: War Destroys the Psyche

The most indicative was the statement by the head of Bashkortostan, Radik Khabyrov. He directly linked the refusal to sound daily sirens to a sharp increase in the consumption of antidepressants among the Russian population. Thus, the official effectively admitted that constant air raids are destroying the psyche of Russians, and the authorities fear not so much the drones as the people's reaction to the truth.

### Economic Consequences and Intelligence Position

Residents of Moscow and the Moscow region regularly complain online about the complete absence of warnings during regular drone attacks. In response, authorities state that mass notification in non-obvious situations could cause more damage than the threat itself, as it provokes chaos.

"In essence, all these explanations boil down to one common denominator: the scale of strikes on Russian territory is now so great that the silence of sirens has ceased to be a matter of logistics. Now it is a matter of the political survival of a regime that has spent years building an image of a war that supposedly does not affect the ordinary Russian," intelligence notes.

### Blows to the Economy

While authorities try to hide reality from citizens, systematic attacks on Russia's fuel and energy sector are increasingly affecting its economy. Over the weekend, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) launched a series of large-scale strikes on military infrastructure in Crimea; gas distribution stations, oil terminals, and logistics hubs came under fire.

According to media reports, due to drone strikes in Russia, significant volumes of fuel are being destroyed, contracts are being broken, and owners of oil depots and their partners are massively turning to courts due to the loss of hundreds of tons of gasoline and diesel fuel.