Overview
- A presidential decree gives the state authority to place private firms under temporary administration if their protections against drone attacks are judged inadequate, with a state manager able to control most Russian assets except outright sales.
- Senior officials say active detection and interception systems must be folded into the Defence Ministry's air‑defence architecture while companies may keep only passive measures such as nets and building hardening.
- Russian law now lets contracted private security firms use specialist anti‑drone weapons supplied by the National Guard when protecting critical infrastructure, creating a new formal role for private guards.
- Firms have sharply increased hiring and procurement for anti‑drone capabilities and public tenders show a sixfold rise in private spending in the first half of 2026, yet authorities have relied on warnings so far and no confirmed seizures have been reported.
- The measures follow a rise in long‑range Ukrainian strikes that Moscow cites as the reason for tighter controls, and they shift costs and operational risk onto company managers who face heavy spending requirements and the threat of state takeover.