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Leningrad Region Asks Veterans to Join New Air Defense Units After Drones Smash Oil Export Terminals
Authorities plan 54 new mobile air defense groups and urge reservists to sign three-year contracts after 243 drones were intercepted this year, officials said.
- On Friday, Leningrad Region Governor Alexander Drozdenko announced a recruitment campaign for military reservists to form new "mobile fire groups" protecting critical infrastructure at Baltic Sea oil ports Ust-Luga and Primorsk.
- Intensifying drone assaults attributed to Ukraine have recently disrupted vital oil exports, causing a 43% collapse in seaborne crude oil exports from Ust-Luga and Primorsk between March 22 and 29.
- Reservists will sign three-year contracts with active duty ranging from 2 to 6 months, operating under command of the 6th Guards Air Force and Air Defense Army stationed in the region.
- The Kremlin warned European nations against stepping up drone supplies to Ukraine, citing factories in Britain and Germany, while Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev suggested these facilities could become potential targets.
- Data reveals the scale of ongoing aerial threats, with Russia claiming to have intercepted 11,211 Ukrainian drones in March alone, and Drozdenko noting 243 drones intercepted over the Leningrad Region since year's start.
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Russia is urgently recruiting reservists for the defense of the oil terminals Ust-Luga and Primorsk due to the threat of drone attacks.
Occupiers are training new air defense units in the Leningrad Region. Russia is being forced to form new military units to protect its strategic oil ports from drone attacks. Leningrad Region authorities have announced an urgent call for reservists to defend the Ust-Luga and Primorsk terminals. This was reported by RBC-Ukraine, citing the British newspaper The Independent. Read also: Russian billionaire complains to Ukrainian Armed Forces: Drone…
Since the Ukrainian counterattacks with drones are increasing against Russia, authorities in the area around Russia's millions metropolis St. Petersburg have called for reservists to conclude an air defense contract.The decision had been made to station additional mobile fire squads on the premises of companies and critical infrastructure, the governor of the Leningrad region, Alexander Drosdenko, wrote to Telegram. Drosdenko turned to residents…
Ukraine is targeting the Russian oil industry in a targeted manner. This has the effect that the attacks are obviously creating Moscow. A region is forced to act – and is resorting to mobile fire squads.
“Frontline Region” Inside Russia—Leningrad Governor Calls Up Reservists as Drone Strikes Intensify
Authorities in Russia’s Leningrad region are expanding air defense measures and calling up reservists. Ukrainian drone strikes increasingly target key infrastructure, according to statements made by Russian regional governor Alexander Drozdenko on April 17. In a video address, Drozdenko described the region as a “frontline area” and urged residents to “clench their teeth,” announcing plans to strengthen the protection of airspace against ongoing…
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