Paul Goble
Staunton, Mar. 17 – As Putin’s expanded war in Ukraine enters its fifth year, Sergey Shoigu, Russian Council Secretary says, not a single Russian region “can feel safe” from Ukrainian drone attacks or from terrorist attacks and sabotage now being organized by 56 countries.
In a speech in the Urals Federal District, the former defense minister, says that earlier Ukrainian drones could not reach much of the country but that today they can and that other countries have expanded their actions against Russia (httnovayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/03/17/shoigu-na-piatyi-god-svo-ni-odin-region-rossii-ne-mozhet-chuvstvovat-sebia-v-bezopasnosti-protivnik-kovaren-56-stran-gotoviat-protiv-rossii-terakty-i-diversii-news).
Shoigu says that Ukraine and its allies are “using the internet to influence ‘marginalized groups’” within the Russian Federation to commit such crimes. And he stresses that “underestimating the level of the threats or any slowness in the elimination of existing vulnerabilities could lead to tragic consequences and undermine socio-economic stability.”
This is the clearest indication yet that the Kremlin now recognizes that the war Putin launched and has tried so hard to keep from affecting the lives of most Russians has very much come home and is now calling into question the stability of the country. But it is also a sign that Moscow intends to expand repression in an effort to prevent that from happening.
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