Four truckers were charged for drone attacks on airfields in the Russian Federation
The Main Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee (IC) of the Russian Federation has completed the investigation of the criminal case of the attack of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) to the military airfields of Russia. Four defendants are in custody in the case. This was reported by the newspaper Kommersant on April 30.
Four truckers were charged with the crime — Andrei Merkuryev, Alexander Zaitsev, Mikhail Ryumin and Sergey Kanurin. A case has been opened against them on the commission of a terrorist act and illegal trafficking of explosives.
"According to investigators, the drivers were part of a group of natives of Ukraine, Artyom Timofeev (listed as a terrorist and extremist in the Russian Federation) and Ekaterina Timofeeva and a certain Borisovsky (wanted), recruited by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) to commit terrorist attacks in Russia," the publication says.
It was clarified that at the end of May 2025, they left Chelyabinsk, loading frame houses into the bodies, and headed to different regions of the country.
The investigation believes that the drones were hidden in the structures of these houses and remotely activated when the trucks approached the military airfields. The drivers were detained immediately after the terrorist attack, but they did not admit guilt, saying they did not know about what was happening and were used blindly.
The volume of the criminal case at the moment is about 90 volumes.
On June 1 last year, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces had carried out terrorist attacks on airfields in the Murmansk, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Ryazan and Amur regions using FPV drones, and all attacks were repelled in the Irkutsk and Amur regions. Some participants of the terrorist attacks have been detained.
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