Police destroy more than 3,700 wild cannabis plants in Khabarovsk Krai
In operation Mak-2025, officers in Komsomolsky and Nikolaevsky districts of Khabarovsk Krai burned 659 and 3,129 wild cannabis plants on two plots near Molodezhny and Nikolaevsk-on-Amur, with reported plant masses of 198 and 94 kilograms.
🇷🇺 Khabarovsk Krai · Russia
- Plants destroyed
- 3,788
- Cannabis
- 292 kg
During operation Mak-2025, drug-control officers in Komsomolsky district of
Khabarovsk Krai, together with the regional FSB office, military personnel and
district officials, found wild cannabis covering 189 square metres near the
settlement of Molodezhny on abandoned farmland.[1] They burned 659 plants on the
spot, and the destroyed material weighed 198 kilograms according to the police
account relayed by Izvestia.[2]
In Nikolaevsky district, near Nikolaevsk-on-Amur, officers working with the
regional Interior Ministry and city administration located a second wild patch of
about 375 square metres.[1] They burned 3,129 cannabis plants there, with a
reported mass of 94 kilograms.[2] Both outlets published the regional UMVD
Telegram announcement dated 5 August 2025.[1]
Sources
- В Комсомольском и Николаевском районах сотрудники полиции уничтожили более 3,5 тысяч кустов дикорастущей конопли. Лента новостей Хабаровска, 5 August 2025. In Russian.
- В Хабаровском крае было уничтожено более 3,5 тыс. кустов дикой конопли. Известия, 5 August 2025. In Russian.
Open questions the AI reported
- The regional UMVD Telegram post quoted by Izvestia gives plant masses of 198 kg and 94 kg; it is unclear whether those weights are fresh plant mass or another measure.
- Khabarovsk-news says the Komsomolsky plot covered 189 square metres and the Nikolaevsky plot about 375 square metres, but neither source states when the burns took place beyond early August 2025.
- No arrests or criminal cases linked to these two wild plots are reported.
- A separate August 2025 UMVD summary for the whole krai mentions larger totals including cultivated plots; those other sites are left out of this report.
- Izvestia's article also mentions an unrelated Primorye case in the same day's news flow, which is not part of this event.
