_”No region of Russia can feel safe” now from long-range drone or missile attacks launched by the UK-NATO-Ukraine military combine, Russian Security Council head Sergei Shoigu stated bluntly to a March 17 meeting of the Security Council held in Yekaterinburg, a city on the eastern side of the Urals some 1,000 miles east of Ukraine’s border.
Shoigu reported that there had been 1,830 “terrorist attacks” on Russian territory in 2025, a 40% increase over 2024 and six times the 2023 level. Aerial attacks on Russian infrastructure had quadrupled to 23,000 in 2025. The threat of “terrorist attacks” against critical infrastructure is becoming “even more imminent and widespread,” and must not be underestimated, he warned, adding that measures (unnamed) have been developed to counterattack this threat.
Even a partial list of such military attacks in 2026 shows that the density and range of attacks has escalated sharply in March, coinciding with the outbreak of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. Since March 14, the drone swarms fired into Russia have been the largest ever, upwards of two thousand drones in all, by now.
Several hundred drones have been shot down while moving towards Moscow, many of them being decoys, raising the possibility that these swarms may be intended to saturate and exhaust Russian air defenses in preparation for some strike in the Moscow area with a more powerful weapon.
