Police destroy more than 4,700 wild cannabis plants in Bikin district
During operation Mak-2026, drug-control officers in Bikin district of Khabarovsk Krai, with Bikin police and the regional FSB, destroyed more than 4,700 wild cannabis plants on a one-hectare belt in a forest strip bordering a village, burning about 320 kilograms of material after uprooting and herbicide treatment.
🇷🇺 Bikin, Khabarovsk Krai · Russia
- Plants destroyed
- 4,700
- Hectares
- 1
- Cannabis
- 320 kg
During operation Mak-2026, drug-control officers of the Khabarovsk Krai
Interior Ministry, together with Bikin district police and the regional FSB
border directorate, found and cleared a large patch of wild cannabis, the
regional police said.[1] The plants grew in a forest belt covering about one
hectare next to a village in Bikin municipal district.[1]
Officers destroyed more than 4,700 cannabis plants weighing about 320
kilograms in total.[1] They pulled stems with the roots, treated the ground
with herbicides and burned the material on the spot.[2] Vestidv reported that
similar eradication work was continuing in other parts of the krai.[2]
Sources
- В Бикинском муниципальном округе в рамках операции «Мак-2026» уничтожены более 4700 кустов дикорастущей конопли. Лента новостей Хабаровска, 16 July 2026. In Russian.
- Ещё одну плантацию конопли – на этот раз дикорастущей – уничтожили полицейские в Бикинском округе. ГТРК «Вести Дальний Восток», 17 July 2026. In Russian.
Open questions the AI reported
- The regional Interior Ministry Telegram post quoted on 15–16 July 2026 does not name the village beside the forest belt.
- Vestidv rounded the plant count to almost five thousand while the police figure is more than 4,700.
- Neither source states whether anyone was arrested at the site.
- Khabarovsk-news republishes the regional police channel without independent verification.
- No separate plant count is given for material burned after uprooting versus standing plants.
