Authorities in the region around Russia’s northern city of St Petersburg are calling on reservists to sign air defence contracts amid increasing Ukrainian drone attacks.<\/p>\n
The decision was made to station additional mobile teams on the premises of companies and critical infrastructure in the Leningrad region, Governor Alexander Drozdenko wrote on Telegram on Friday.<\/p>\n
Drozdenko said residents with military experience would be eligible to sign three-year contracts, which would include service in a barracks extending from two to six months.<\/p>\n
Last October, the Russian daily Kommersant reported on the deployment of the first reservist unit to defend against Ukrainian drones in the Leningrad region, which borders Finland and Estonia.<\/p>\n
At the same time, the Russian parliament fast-tracked a law to legalize this new model for the protection of strategically important sites by reservists.<\/p>\n
With Western support, Ukraine has been defending itself against a large-scale Russian invasion for more than four years.<\/p>\n
As part of its strategy against Russia, Ukraine repeatedly attacks the Russian oil industry, which is crucial for Moscow’s war financing.<\/p>\n
The Baltic oil ports of Primorsk and Ust-Luga and the large Kirishi refinery in the Leningrad region – located up to 1,000 kilometres from Ukraine – were frequently targeted in Ukrainian drone attacks.<\/p>\n
St Petersburg Airport was also repeatedly forced to temporarily suspend operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities in the region around Russia’s northern city of St Petersburg are calling on reservists to sign air…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[6680,20649,20650,20652,329,20651,328],"class_list":{"0":"post-30179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vladimir-putin","8":"tag-alexander-drozdenko","9":"tag-governor-alexander-drozdenko","10":"tag-leningrad-region","11":"tag-reservists","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-st-petersburg","14":"tag-vladimir-putin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116421014862785401","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}