In the Crimea, the police began to search for hooligans who on August 22 and 23 by phone several times reported that the Simferopol airport was allegedly mined. For the first time on the evening of August 22, a woman called. She stated that a bomb had been laid on the airstrip of the air harbor. The second call came in the morning 23 August. The check did not confirm this information, evacuation of passengers was not, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports with reference to the press service of the transport department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Southern Federal District.

In the evening of August 22, in Simferopol, five flights were detained, an airplane from St. Petersburg made an emergency landing at the Rostov-on-Don airport. Earlier, telephone anonyms reported that the capital of the Crimea mined the hotel and the bank. This information turned out to be false. In the autumn of last year, a flurry of anonymous reports about false mining of public buildings collapsed on Russian cities: offices, schools, cinemas. Russian law enforcement agencies later found that calls were made from the territory of Ukraine.