Russia’s rump legislature, the Duma, on Wednesday passed a law allowing the central bank and private(-ish) sector financial institutions to operate their own defense systems following repeated attacks by Ukrainian projectiles, timely as the most recent being the Wednesday missile strike on the central bank’s offices in Sebastopol on the disputed Crimea peninsula, Reuters reports.
That they needed to pass a law to allow the banks – top commercial house Sberbank among them – to do this rather than simply deploy actual government/military assets for defense might not be the best statement on the Putin Regime’s situation in terms of resources. Could even just be a bad one.