Demand among Russian commercial companies for drone defense equipment jumped 6.6-fold in the first half of 2026 compared with the same period last year, reaching 441.3 million rubles, the Russian business daily Vedomosti reported, citing analysts from Tenderplan, a tender-tracking platform.
Representatives of Kontur.Zakupok, a Russian procurement platform, confirmed the trend to Vedomosti, saying procurement volume in monetary terms rose 49% to 25.71 million rubles. The company tracks purchases made through its own service, which aggregates data from several platforms.
Purchases of such systems rose sharply after Vladimir Putin instructed Russia’s Presidential Administration and the government in late May to work with businesses on proposals for protecting enterprises from drone attacks.
A Tenderplan representative said the directive does not give companies access to military-grade weapons. As before, they can buy only non-lethal equipment — protective barriers, communications and detection gear, electronic warfare equipment, and interceptor drones without explosives.
Ukraine has repeatedly struck logistics centers belonging to Wildberries, Russia’s largest marketplace, since mid-July, sparking major fires at several of the company’s warehouses.
Wildberries’ direct losses from the attacks could exceed 100 billion rubles, according to estimates from sources who spoke to The Bell, an independent Russian media outlet.
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