Rusal, Gazprom, and 10 More Companies Fined for Lacking Drone Protection

Rusal, Gazprom, and 10 more companies were fined for lacking protection against UAVs. Lawyers believe such cases could be used to introduce external management under Putin’s new decree

In 2024-2026, at least 12 Russian companies and holdings were fined over the lack of protection from drone attacks, Vyorstka found after analyzing court databases.

Administrative offense cases were opened under various articles, mainly under Article 20.30 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, “violation of security and anti-terrorist protection requirements for fuel and energy facilities.” Inspections of the enterprises were carried out by representatives of the police, the National Guard, and the prosecutor’s office.

The fines ranged from 20,000 to 110,000 rubles. Among the punished companies were both state-owned and private ones, including firms from the Gazprom group, Rosseti, Rusal, the Perm enterprise Motovilikha Civil Engineering (MGM), Tatnefteprodukt, the Moscow plant Spetsenergomash, and the capital’s heating company ETK No. 2.

The protocols were drawn up because the enterprises lacked special structures protecting against the consequences of drone attacks, as well as systems for detecting and countering UAVs.

For example, the Kandalaksha Aluminum Plant (“Rusal Kandalaksha”), owned by oligarch Oleg Deripaska, was fined 30,000 rubles in June 2026 because the enterprise had not equipped at least two machine-gun observation posts for UAV monitoring and had not hired guards authorized to use combat weapons.

Lawyers interviewed by Vyorstka believe that new administrative cases over violations of anti-terrorist protection requirements could become grounds for introducing external management at enterprises under a decree recently signed by Vladimir Putin.

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