At the end of May, a Volgograd Telegram channel published an unusual announcement: local "mobile fire groups" tasked with shooting down Ukrainian drones were asking residents to chip in for radios, laser pointers, and camouflage nets. They needed 151,400 rubles, a little over 2,000 dollars. Over several days, they collected 13,300 rubles. The state, which had promised its citizens that the war would never touch them, was asking them to fund their own air defense themselves, and the Russians "ch

Ukraine just proved it can saturate Moscow’s air defenses and gut its oil supply. With 500 drones. The question now: what happens when the number gets higher?

At the end of May, a Volgograd Telegram channel published an unusual announcement: local "mobile fire groups" tasked with shooting down Ukrainian drones were asking residents to…