Russia has passed a law allowing its central bank and other financial institutions to operate defence systems and arm staff to ward off drone attacks

    https://tvpworld.com/93480519/russias-central-bank-top-bank-sberbank-to-operate-anti-drone-systems

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    1. assistant_managers on

      So Russia is cool with Russian FIs becoming legitimate targets and employees becoming lawful combatants for Ukraine to target?

      Cool, let the drones do their thing.

    2. MonikonPerfekti on

      Every bank is going to have an anti-air-cannon and missiles on the roof now. Cashiers operate them. And the matuška cashiers will flash their tits and babuškas their moldy a**es on the roof so the Ukrainians won’t dare blow up the banks.

    3. gottagohype on

      And the situation in Russia grows a little more dire. Make sure to grab a few shotgun shells for the road on your way out of the office.

    4. Who owns the banks? This must be a token to appease someone wealthy lol.

      Rather useless, but still. I’m sure it’s a very good idea to hand out AKs at banks and have them eyeball drones while magdumping them.

    5. Looks like Cyberpunk was wrong, the first Corpo Wars will happen in Russia and not the US.

    6. Jealous-Chemical-349 on

      Yup, that’s what a winner does, can’t wait for tankies to spin this in a creative way

    7. Fortification works not just against drones (maybe least for that), but also against people and entities, including goverment.

    8. So what does that mean? Russia is sayjng, “youre on your own. Spend your own money to arm yourself.”

    9. Guys, I’m starting to think this 3 days military operation isn’t going according to plan.

    10. Yeah, drone threat… They are gonna take the civilian savings that are left in the system, the arms are to defend from them, not drones…

    11. WaffleHouseGladiator on

      Russia is gearing up for some kind of disaster.  Western governments are preparing for a broad conflict around 2030.  I’m still trying to wrap my head around what the end goal is for Russia.  This cannot possibly end well for them.

    12. Gadgetman_1 on

      Ukraine hasn’t even targetted any financial institutions in Russia.

      Nah… It’s a trick!

      The FIs pay to train their employees to handle AA systems, which they will probably do better than the grunts the Russian Army uses because most FI employees can actually read. Then ‘their’ AA systems gets ‘slightly repositioned’ to also cover power substations and factories important for the war effort.

    13. PoppySeeds89 on

      So they’re allowing institutions that manage large quantities of money to also arm themselves and operate semi autonomously from the state….

    14. LordFlappingtonIV on

      So how’s the Three Day Special Operation going, *Vlad?* Maybe it’s time to just go home, eh?

    15. takeyouraxeandhack on

      So…. They are basically saying don’t have means to defend their own territory, so they’re leaving it up to the companies? That’s nice to know.

    16. Currency is a facet of warfare like many others. The longer the war goes, the more critical it becomes to attempt to cripple the opponent’s ability to operate their economic system and their war machine.

      Victory can’t always happen on the battlefield. Modern industrial warfare has taught us this again and again. Ultimately currency keeps the gears of war lubricated and moving. Without the flow of money, everything seizes.

      It’s not a surprise Russia is doing this because at this point of the war almost anything is possible. If it gets bad enough, it might not even be Ukraine the Russian Federation’s government is concerned about.

    17. Huge-Cartoonist6795 on

      Yet London is the lawless Muslim caliphate run by guns and knives? Hahahahha Slava Ukraine.