Red Square as it hosts a display of WWII Red Army military hardware as part of the 'City of Living Stories' open air museum in Moscow, Russia, 7 Nov, 2025 (Sefa Karacan/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Ukrainian drones — and the occasional missile — have been causing havoc across Russia for months.

According to Ukraine's Security Service (SBU), nearly 160 successful strikes have been conducted in 2025 against oil extraction and refining facilities, leading to fuel shortages and a 37% drop in refining capacity.

"These are legitimate military targets. Oil extraction and refining make up around 90% of Russia’s defense budget. These are the dirty petro-rubles funding the war against us," SBU Chief Vasyl Maliuk said on Oct. 31.

The Kremlin is struggling to respond. On Nov. 4, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law that would allow reservists to be sent to defend critical infrastructure such as oil refineries from drone attacks.

In practice, this likely means an increase in mobile air defense units consisting of troops manning truck-mounted machine guns — something Russia has already been recently ridiculed about.

A photo showing two Russian soldiers standing beside a pickup truck with an anti-aircraft gun near th