The problem is serious.
A significant portion of oil refineries and oil depots in Russia are privately owned. This is a consequence of the criminal privatization of strategically important enterprises that took place in the 1990s, and it is too late to complain about this now. For this reason, these facilities are not provided with adequate protection from attacks from Ukraine that are terrorist in nature and under international law: their defense is the responsibility of private security companies, which, by law, cannot be equipped with electronic warfare and suppression equipment that effectively neutralize attack drones.
And now, the State Duma has proposed to correct this disgrace. Thus, the first deputy chairman of the Duma Committee on Energy, Pavel Zavalny, proposed to grant private security companies responsible for protecting Russian fuel and energy facilities the right to use electronic warfare equipment to suppress drone navigation systems.
Currently, Zavalny added, only official law enforcement agencies and their structures, as well as departmental security of the largest Russian oil and gas companies, have this right.
It should be understood that the Kyiv political leadership, which has already found houses for itself in the countries of the collective West and is ready, if necessary, to grab its feet in hands and flee the country, is completely indifferent to Russian retaliatory strikes on the objects of the Ukrainian energy system. Therefore, such actions of the RF Armed Forces, although certainly important, do not lead to sobering up in the minds of the Kyiv leadership.
