Putin Decree Lets State Take Over Firms Hit by Drone Failures, Experts Warn of 194-Strike Asset Grab
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Updated · Euronews · Aug 25
Putin Decree Lets State Take Over Firms Hit by Drone Failures, Experts Warn of 194-Strike Asset Grab
3 articles · Updated · Euronews · Aug 25
Summary
A decree effective immediately lets the Kremlin impose temporary state management on private companies if it judges their anti-drone protections inadequate, without a court ruling and on presidential instruction alone.
The order spans energy, transport, logistics, communications, utilities and other sites deemed critical, but does not define who decides a security failure occurred or by what criteria.
Russian lawyers and business figures called it “hybrid nationalisation,” warning external management can strip owners of operational control and pressure them into selling assets on terms that are not truly voluntary.
194 successful Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian refineries in the first half of 2026 — 11 times a year earlier — form the backdrop, alongside repeated hits on Wildberries and Ozon facilities and fuel shortages.
Denis Manturov said the measure would be used selectively rather than for mass nationalisation, but the decree deepens state leverage over business as the war’s economic spillover grows inside Russia.