Funds allocated for road repairs will be permitted to be spent on…
Funds allocated for road repairs will be permitted to be spent on their protection against drones. The Ministry of Transport wants to allow spending money allocated for road repair and maintenance on their protection against drone attacks and on repairing the road surface damaged by drone attacks.
Consensus
- The Ministry of Transport has proposed changes to the classification of road works to include anti-drone protection and post-attack restoration.
- Funds allocated for road repair and maintenance can now be used for anti-drone infrastructure and recovery from drone attacks.
- The proposed changes are based on a request from Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin.
- Currently, the classification does not allow for spending on anti-drone measures within standard road works.
- The project has been published on the portal of normative legal acts.
- The drone attack on July 8 occurred on a road in the Primorsky Municipal District of Zaporozhye Oblast.
- The attack targeted a passenger bus traveling from Krasnodar to Melitopol.
- There were 11 people on board the bus at the time of the attack: nine passengers and two drivers.
- No injuries were reported as a result of the attack.
Points of divergence
- The Ministry of Transport proposed including the possibility of installing protective structures against drone attacks during road capital repairs. — vedomosti
- The Ministry of Transport explicitly stated that funds for road repair can now be used for anti-drone protection and restoration of infrastructure damaged by air attacks. — tg_astrapress
- The Ministry of Transport proposed adding the restoration of roads after attacks to the list of repair and maintenance works. — tvrain
- The project is based on changes to the departmental order No. 402, which defines the classification of road works. — tg_tvrain
- The Ministry of Transport emphasized that the current classification does not allow spending on drone protection, preventing regions and road workers from using budget funds for protective structures. — tg_istories_media
- The Ministry of Transport stated that the new classification aims to ensure anti-terrorism security of transport infrastructure and road safety. — kommersant
Coverage (6 sources)
- Ministry of Transport proposed installing protection against drone attacks during road repairs — Ведомости
- Ministry of Transport will allow spending funds allocated for road repairs on protection against drones — ASTRA
- Ministry of Transport proposed allowing funds allocated for road repair to be spent on their protection from drones — Дождь
- Ministry of Transport proposed spending money on road repairs for drone defense — Дождь (Telegram)
- Funds allocated for road repair will be allowed to be spent on their protection from drones — Важные истории
- Ministry of Transport adds protection against drone attacks to the list of road repair works — Коммерсантъ