The largest outlays came from utilities supplying electricity, heat and water to households, as well as from civilian airports, according to the analysis of procurement records.

Rosseti tops the list of buyers: together with its subsidiaries, the grid operator paid more than 3 billion rubles. Mosvodokanal is second at 1.7 billion rubles. Inter RAO spent 1.3 billion, and the St Petersburg Fuel and Energy Complex 970 million. The Territorial Generating Company No. 2, a Gazprom subsidiary, paid about 400 million rubles for counter-drone measures, and Lukoil-Rostovenergo 350 million.

Sheremetyevo airport and the State Air Traffic Management Corporation are also among the large customers. Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk airport, located far from Ukraine, allocated about 300 million rubles for the purpose.

Supplier names are not disclosed in most contracts signed after 2022. According to the outlet, the single most expensive item was the Sapfir system made by the KRET concern, part of the Rostec state corporation. Rosseti signed four contracts to buy it for a total of almost 1.9 billion rubles; a single system can start at 70 million. State customers paid at least another 100 million rubles to Kaspersky Lab for its Kaspersky Antidrone system.

Bulat portable drone detectors appear in 157 procurements worth a total of 388 million rubles. The Bulat developer is listed in its instructions as the company 3mx, whose website, according to the outlet, is registered to the St Petersburg firm Trimix, which has been sanctioned by the EU, the US, Switzerland and Ukraine. Anti-drone guns under the Russian brand Garpia are produced by China's Shenzhen Greetwin Technology; their products appear in 65 procurements worth 163 million rubles.

Among suppliers whose names are known, the biggest earner was St Petersburg's Special Technology Center, which makes the Orlan reconnaissance drones. It sold protective equipment worth 193 million rubles, including to the Kurchatov Institute and the Artek camp.

In August 2026, Vladimir Putin signed a decree that effectively allows the confiscation of critical infrastructure enterprises if they have not invested in drone protection, Novaya Gazeta Europe and Meduza write. Under the decree, temporary management at such facilities will be introduced by Rosimushchestvo or "another person" designated by the government.