On February 10, the occupiers announced the “opening of the qualifying round of an educational workshop” “Unmanned Technologies” at the so-called “V.N. Tolstov Kerch Technological College.” They make no secret of the fact that this show was “part of a large-scale project to build a talent pool for drone operators,” conducted by the so-called “Crimean Research Institute of Unmanned Technologies,” where the “valuable instructions” of Crimean gauleiter Aksyonov are allegedly being implemented “under the personal supervision” of his “assistant” Stanislav Gretsky.
We previously reported that this “institute” was “established” by the occupiers in 2024, with a “registered address” in an office that coincided with the Tavrida Spetstrans structure.
Group of collaborators such as Bogdan Zinkov, Igor Boyko, Alexander Akulenko, and Alexander Lysenko are listed as “co-founders of the institute.” Alexander Akulenko received a “lawyer’s certificate” from the aggressor in 2016; his wife, Oksana Akulenko,
is also listed as a “lawyer” for the occupiers, and apparently a “tame” one for the punitive forces.
She was planted by the punitive forces as a “lawyer-by-appointment” for the captured so-called “saboteurs” Vladimir Dudka, Andrey Zakhtey, and Dmitry Shtyblikov, as well as for two “accused of aiding” the so-called “terrorist” Maxim Filatov, and so on.
The aforementioned Igor Boyko, along with Akulenko, received “thanks” from the Crimean gauleiter as “deputy director of the unmanned aerial systems center” and “head of the situation center” at the “Crimean Federal University,” where he also “managed the project” “High-tech student sports.”
It is clear that these individuals are continuing their criminal activities to militarize Crimean youth through “training drone operators.”
Also quite characteristic is the figure of the declared “supervisor” of this process, Stanislav Gretsky, who previously appeared regularly as Aksyonov’s “assistant” “on transport issues,” as a “member of the board at the ministry of transport” and a “distinguished transport worker” of the occupiers.
Gretsky’s “conscientious work,” so highly valued by Aksyonov, consisted not so much of his active complicity in the occupation of Crimea, as a militant in the criminal “combined regiment of the people’s militia” in 2014, but rather of his role from 2015 to 2019 as the “director of the municipal entity” of occupied Simferopol, “Gor Trans Service,” which operated all of Simferopol’s paid parking lots.
Gretsky was appointed there through the patronage of his cousin, Anastasia Volkova,
then the “head of the transport and communications department” of the criminal “administration” of the occupiers in Simferopol.
Vladimir Smirnov, who replaced Gretsky in such a lucrative role, was arrested exactly six years ago by the occupying forces in a “black cash” case, in which “significant sums collected from parked cars” were siphoned off from the company in cash for the benefit of “higher management.”
At the time, it was explicitly stated that Gretsky “oversaw” the operations of “Gor Trans Service” and acted as an intermediary in the aforementioned “food chain.” He was also “searched,” and allegedly “a significant amount of cash, as well as firearms and bladed weapons, were found.”
However, after the initial pompous “arrests,” all those involved in this story predictably escaped with a “light fright.” Smirnov subsequently returned to his “previous position” at Gor Trans Service, and Volkova “resigned voluntarily” from the “Simferopol administration” only at the end of 2021.
Thus, it’s clear that Aksyonov sent Gretsky to “oversee the training of drone operators” with quite “specific tasks,” knowing full well that this area now offered his clan vast financial opportunities.
