Mass evacuation was held in large Russian cities due to threats by phone

The last few days in large cities throughout Russia, mass evacuation from shopping centers, administrative buildings, stations, schools and institutions due to anonymous calls about the laid bombs. It is still unknown who is behind false messages about the mining of buildings; According to one version, we can talk about a hacker attack.

Where the evacuation took place

Among the cities where there were reports of ownerless objects or bombs, Perm, Chelyabinsk, Ufa, Omsk, Vladivostok, Magadan, Krasnoyarsk, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Ryazan, Bryansk.

The first mass evacuation took place in Omsk on September 10 -after messages about the bomb, people were taken out of the building of the city administration, several cinemas, as well as the MEGA and Mayak Mall shopping centers. The day after calls about bombs, people were again evacuated from the city hall and Mega, as well as Auchan, Leroy Merlin stores, all branches of the Pension Fund, several schools and markets.

On September 12, false calls about explosive devices in public buildings continued. In the morning, about six thousand people were evacuated in the morning, and then classes in all schools were canceled . In Krasnoyarsk, the evacuation was held in the buildings of the bus station, airport, administration and several shopping centers.

The evacuation was also carried out in the RUDN building in Moscow; Later, the university explained that it was associated with planned educational anxiety, which was spent once every six months. At the same time, in the Samara, Voronezh, Belgorod, Lipetsk, Kursk, Oryol and Tambov regions, as well as in Udmurtia, they reported that they had no evacuation.

Who is behind the calls

As reported by Znak.com with reference to sources close to the police, numerous calls with mining warnings entered the police from abroad. According to one version, these messages left a malicious program . Thus, the source of Interfax in law enforcement agencies, commenting on the evacuation in Chelyabinsk, said that we are talking about spam mailing, and "there is reason to assume that all this is organized from abroad." At the same time, the sources of Komsomolskaya Pravda in the Ministry of Internal Affairs say that evacuation in Chelyabinsk was associated with anti -terrorist exercises, which only the top leaders knew about.

Indirectly, information about the possible spam mailing is confirmed by the data of the prosecutor's office of Stavropol, where a criminal case was opened on the fact of the messages of the "lumberry". As explained in the department, from 9:30 to 17 hours on September 11, 42 anonymous messages about explosive devices were received in police sites, and "it was established that all messages came from one phone number."

In turn, the Ural branch of Rostelecom reported that false calls about mining of schools in Perm came from an international virtual operator who provides services through the infrastructure of another company. The source of RIA Novosti in law enforcement agencies said that, according to preliminary data, calls come from the territory of Ukraine.

The AiF-Prikamye publication with reference to the assistant to the General Inspector of the Ministry of Defense Oleg Ostrovsky reported that “for the first time since the time of the USSR, large-scale anti-terrorism exercises are held in which all departments responsible for the security of the state are involved. In addition to Omsk, Novosibirsk, Perm and Chelyabinsk, in the near future, the exercises will be held in other major cities of the state. ” In this form, this news is published on Rambler; On the website of the AiF-Prikamye itself, this publication is absent.