Paul Goble
Staunton, May 28 – In a move that highlights Moscow’s inability to defend the Russian population and its search for money to pay for Putin’s war in Ukraine, the Kremlin has approved a system that will allow Russian industrialists to buy ever more powerful weapons to defend their properties and even allocate military personnel to help them.
While defending key industry is obviously a major and even justifiable task, this arrangement is certain to outrage Russians whose residences the Kremlin isn’t defending and also those concerned about the way in which the state’s monopoly on the use of force is being degraded so that Putin can continue his war.
Russian firms already had been permitted to purchase some weaponry to defend themselves against possible attack, but this arrangement will give them the ability to purchase more powerful weapons and bring the government and its defense firms more money.
As a result, the way in which the Kremlin is deferring to business interests which have the cash as opposed to the population which doesn’t will become more obvious and likely a greater source of anger about the nature of the Putin regime and its military and defense operations.
On this new program, see ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/05/26/milliarderi-poprosili-uputina-krupnokalibernoe-oruzhie-irezervistov-dlya-zaschiti-predpriyatii-otbpla-a196279 and ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/05/28/kreml-razreshil-krupnomu-biznesu-zakupat-zenitnie-ustanovki-chtobi-otstrelivatsya-ot-bespilotnikov-a196587.
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