The Russian business environment needs heavy caliber weaponry and the ability to recruit reservists to protect enterprises against drone attacks. The statement was made on Tuesday, at the Kremlin, during a meeting with Vladimir Putin, by Aleksandr Shokhin, the main representative of the large companies lobby and the head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), the largest business organization in the country, in whose leadership council are billionaires from the Forbes list, reports The Moscow Times.
“Large corporations, undoubtedly, are concerned about protecting their objectives as well as the areas where the companies are present. But some issues need to be regulated“, Sohin addressed Putin. “This concerns the mechanisms of armament insurance — not just light 7.62 caliber weapons, but also larger caliber ones. It also involves various electronic warfare systems, laser installations, and others“
In addition, as it emerges from Shohin’s statements, the business environment would like certain companies to have permanently assigned reservists, who they could use for guarding objectives, a thing allowed by a law adopted at the end of last year. “It often happens that these reservists are in one place today, and in another tomorrow. They barely start taking over the objective, when new tasks already appear,” complained Shohin, quoted by the Kremlin’s press service.
At the end of last year, only the oil companies recorded losses of approximately one trillion rubles due to drone attacks, which hit dozens of refineries across the country. By the spring of 2026, a quarter of Russia’s territory had already fallen within the range of Ukrainian drones, including cities beyond the Urals, such as Chelyabinsk, Yekaterinburg, and Perm.
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