Mobile shop St Petersburg
A Samsung store in a shopping mall on 05 March 2022, Russia, St. Petersburg displaying a Russian pro-military "Z" symbol.
  • Russia is deploying electronic-warfare systems to counter drone attacks.
  • But it's being forced to disable mobile internet services to prevent interference, reports said. 
  • Ukraine is intensifying its drone strikes in Russia, targeting the oil and gas industry. 

Russia is deploying electronic-warfare units to counter Ukrainian drone strikes, but it's having to disable mobile internet across swaths of the country to do so, Russian media reported.

According to Russian business daily Kommersant, government authorities ordered 4G networks to be switched off at night between January 25-30 in Leningrad, Novgorod, and Pskov in northwestern Russia to enable anti-drone units.