Moscow’s Failure to Block Drone Attacks on Key Businesses Prompts Mironov to Call for Such Firms to Set Up Their Own Defense Forces

Paul Goble

            Staunton, April 30 – After Ukrainian drones succeeded in knocking out major Russian businesses and infrastructure, Sergey Mironov, head of the Just Russia Party, has called for Russia’s energy companies to become the first to set up their own anti-drone defense forces to protect themselves.

            According to the Russian politician, they now have the authority to do so under the terms of legislation that entered into force at the end of March allowing companies to “acquire firearms for the protection of critical infrastructure (gazeta.ru/social/news/2026/04/29/28368235.shtml and nemoskva.net/2026/04/30/zashhiti-sebya-sam-sergej-mironov-predlozhil-predpriyatiyam-sozdat-sobstvennye-podrazdeleniya-dlya-zashhity-ot-dronov/).

            "All of this should have been done yesterday,” Mironov continues, but after recent events, “it is even more crucial to avoid red tape and dishonesty today, in order to ensure elections can proceed and to minimize the economic and environmental damage resulting from enemy attacks.”

            Regional officials have urged this step for some time (t.me/Govorit_NeMoskva/31014 and t.me/Govorit_NeMoskva/53966), but Mironov is the first all-Russian politician to call for it, undoubtedly part of his election campaign because it highlights the inability of the Russian state with all its powers to protect Russians.