1/ Russian electricity consumers are likely to be charged an extra fee for protecting and repairing power facilities from Ukrainian drone strikes. Not surprisingly, Russian commentators feel that they're being ripped off with an "air defence tax". ⬇️ bsky.app
2/ 'PolitPochta' highlights the plan: "Quietly, a proposal is being made to include the costs of protecting power grids from drones—specifically detection and countermeasures, as well as the repair of damaged facilities—in electricity transmission tariffs."
3/ "While this is currently just a draft proposal from the FAS (Federal Antimonopoly Service), there is little doubt that it will go through... It creates a nearly perfect scheme: a drone hits a substation, and the consumer pays for the repairs. 4/ "Then the consumer pays to install protection against the next drone. And all of this happens quietly under the guise of yet another tweak to the tariff calculation methodology... 5/ "It looks like a new utility service might soon appear on the bill: "protection against consequences." The end consumer will foot the bill for everything..." 'Two Majors' notes that the deadline for public discussion is as soon as this Friday: 6/ "[T]he deadline for public discussion (have *you* seen any public discussion in the news? We haven't) is 25 September 2026. Plans are also in place to include substation restoration costs under this umbrella. 7/ "It’s a troubling trend. Manufacturers across the board are already factoring the cost of mandatory passive facility protection measures into the price of their products." 8/ "Intelligence Diary" characterises it as "an extremely cynical mechanism for shifting the costs of the infrastructure war onto the population" and highlights the likely consequences: 9/ "Under the guise of routine tariff adjustments, citizens' utility bills will now officially cover the energy monopolies' colossal expenses for anti-drone defence and the restoration of transformers and substations already destroyed by Ukrainian drones. 10/ "The project is being pushed through quietly, without any real media coverage, and the formal window for "public discussion" is hastily and discreetly closing on 25 September 2026. 11/ "The government makes no secret of the fact that the document is the result of intense lobbying by energy asset owners. The oligarchs categorically refused to pay for the consequences of the air defence breaches from their net profits. 12/ "They issued an ultimatum: either the state compensates for the damages from the budget or allows these losses to be included in tariffs. The latter option was chosen. 13/ "Any costs incurred by large businesses for passive drone safety will now be directly included in the cost of goods and utilities. 14/ "The state objectively cannot close the skies over every factory, so it simply issues monthly bills to ordinary consumers for missed drones, elegantly disguising this extortion as a scheduled tariff indexation." /end Source: 🔹 t.me 🔹 t.me 🔹 t.me