According to Ukraine's Foreign Intelligence Service (SZRU), russian Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov said that creating separate systems for detecting, warning of, and repelling UAV attacks outside the framework of russia's so-called Defense Ministry, or "Ministry of Murder," was deemed dangerous.
According to Ukrainian intelligence, this has little to do with concern for anyone's safety. Instead, it is about exploiting corruption schemes reminiscent of the 1990s, where neither doing the job nor failing to do it guarantees that anyone’s property will actually be protected.
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In late August, vladimir putin signed a decree on "temporary state administration" of commercial enterprises that failed to ensure effective protection against UAVs. The decree came amid a series of successful Ukrainian strikes on russian industrial and logistics facilities. According to the SZRU, the decree effectively established the right to redistribute such assets without court proceedings.
At the same time, russian government statements about the “danger” of businesses operating their own air-defense systems are pushing large russian businesses into even greater dependence on the relevant ministries. The catch is that the owners are still expected to protect their own facilities.
According to the SZRU, in russia, "effectiveness" comes down to one thing: having a certificate signed by an official. This gives russian "Ministry of Murder" representatives an opportunity to churn out such paperwork virtually without limit, naturally, for the appropriate payment.
Otherwise, there is always another russian solution to the problem: the property can be "saved" from Ukrainian air attacks by urgently placing it under the "temporary administration" of the Federal Agency for State Property Management, or Rosimushchestvo.
The russian authorities’ “concern” about protecting industrial property from Ukrainian UAVs, and their ability to actually provide such protection, is also illustrated by the manpower situation. putin has publicly supported an initiative to allow citizens with a Category D medical classification to serve in regional air defense units.
According to the SZRU, the acute shortage of personnel for "voluntary contract service" in the russian military is pushing military service onto people with cancer, HIV, epilepsy and schizophrenia, as well as people with Group I and Group II disabilities.
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