The working group on air defense submitted to the State Duma a draft law on the right to private security for the shooting down of unmanned aerial vehicles at fuel and energy facilities. This was stated by the head of the General Secretary of the General Council of United Russia, Andrei Turchak, according to the party’s website.
It is stated that the document will also clarify the concept of the security zone and will now include the airspace over its own territory. Currently, private security at fuel and energy facilities do not have the right to shoot down drones.
Turchak explained that now only employees of law enforcement agencies, departmental security and private security companies guarding facilities with high requirements for anti-terrorism security have this opportunity.
“Since the beginning of the Northern War, fuel and energy complex facilities have become the target of sabotage many times. There were nearly fifty such incidents in the first half of the year alone. At the same time, private security, which provides security for the vast majority of oil storage facilities, substations and other facilities, still does not have the legal right to counter such equipment. “Our bill will correct this situation,” he emphasized.
Let us recall that the working group on SVO issues was created by order of Russian President Vladimir Putin. It was chaired by Andrei Turchak, the first deputy chairman of the Federation Council. The group included representatives of both houses of the federal parliament and all parliamentary parties, the Ministry of Defense, leaders of public organizations and leading war correspondents.