Primorye police destroy 18,000 wild cannabis plants near Dukhovskoye
Drug-control and detective officers in Primorye’s Border district found two wild Manchurian cannabis patches totalling 0.8 hectares near Dukhovskoye during Mak-2026 and destroyed more than 18,000 plants with on-site herbicide treatment.
🇷🇺 Dukhovskoye, Primorsky Krai · Russia
- Plants destroyed
- 18,000
- Hectares
- 0.8
Drug-control officers and criminal detectives from the Primorye Border
district Interior Ministry found two wild Manchurian cannabis sites covering
0.8 hectares near Dukhovskoye during operation Mak-2026, the Primorye
police press service said on 28 September 2026.[1] The plants showed no
signs of cultivation.[2]
Officers treated the sites with herbicides on the spot and destroyed more
than 18,000 cannabis plants in total.[1] Vladivostok’s news wire carried
the same figures from the regional police account on 28 September.[2]
The release named no suspects or landowners.[1][2]
Sources
- Полиция Приморья уничтожила 18 тысяч кустов дикорастущей конопли. Вести.ru, 28 September 2026. In Russian.
- В Пограничном округе Приморья полиция уничтожила 18 тыс. кустов дикорастущей конопли. Лента новостей Владивостока, 28 September 2026. In Russian.
Open questions the AI reported
- Sources quote the Primorye Interior Ministry on 28 September 2026 but do not give the exact field date.
- No estimated drug yield was published, only more than 18,000 plants on 0.8 hectares.
- Neither outlet reported arrests linked to these wild patches.
- Vesti.ru and Vladivostok news both relay police wording without independent witnesses.
- A much larger Ussuriysk-area eradication earlier in September 2026 is a separate event mentioned elsewhere in regional press.
