Lawyers compared the legal consequences of destroying UAVs by air defense forces and civilians.
Military personnel, shooting down drones, are performing a task to defend the state. A civilian with a weapon, however, acts solely at their own risk, lawyers said, commenting on court decisions regarding a pensioner from the Volgograd region who shot at a UAV. The consequences also differ: in the case of a drone being shot down by the military, compensation is paid by the state, while in the case of shooting by an ordinary citizen, all consequences and responsibility fall on them.