UAV Threat Log Book

A living record of unmanned aerial threats
across the Russian Federation.

Aggregated hourly from publicly reported strikes, intercepts, airport closures and regional governor announcements. Awareness, not endorsement — borders rendered as administered, events as reported.

Active
34
Past 3d
29
Past 7d
6
Events on record
2,328

Last ingestion unknown · 2026-05-08 13:42 UTC

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The Cost

Public estimates of what the war has cost Russia — in lives, in rubles, and in things Russia did not build instead. All figures Russian-side only; ranges reflect classified data.

Military casualties
Civilian casualties (inside Russia)
Spending on the offensive
Spending on defending Russian territory
Economic burden
War-economy boost
All-in total
as of 2026-04
≈ $0.85 – 1.0 trillion

All-in cumulative cost to Russia. Author rollup: war spending + frozen assets + lost exports + replacement value

What that money could have bought instead

Pegged to ≈ $550 billion cumulative direct war spending and the 2025 federal budget. If Russia hadn’t spent it on the war, it could have funded:

  • 01

    ≈ 27 years of Russia’s entire federal healthcare budget — every CT scan, every cancer ward, every district polyclinic, paid from Vladivostok to Kaliningrad until 2052.

    $550B ÷ $20.5B (2025 federal healthcare) ≈ 26.8 years·OSW analysis of Russian MoF 2026 budget
  • 02

    18 months of full pension payouts to every one of Russia’s ≈ 41 million pensioners — three Novy God holidays in a row, fully covered, just from 2025’s war bill.

    $199B 2025 defence ÷ (41.17M × 23,456 RUB/mo × 12 ÷ 90 RUB/USD) ≈ 18 months·SIPRI; Russian Social Fund
  • 03

    8.5 years of Russia’s entire federal education budget — every school, every university, every pedagogical college from grade 1 to PhD, funded for nearly a decade.

    13.49 trln RUB defence ÷ 1.58 trln RUB education ≈ 8.5×·Meduza on 2025 federal budget; OSW
  • 04

    $13 billion in 2025 oil-refinery damage ≈ ⅔ of Russia’s entire annual federal healthcare budget — set on fire above Ryazan and Samara in twelve months.

    $13B ÷ $20.5B ≈ 0.63×·Russian insurers, via Moscow Times
  • 05

    470 million teacher-monthly-salary equivalents — enough to pay every Russian schoolteacher a Moscow-tier salary for a generation.

    $550B ≈ 49.5 trln RUB; ÷ 78,000 RUB/mo ≈ 470M monthly salaries·Rosstat 2025; Russia Matters
  • 06

    $300 billion in frozen reserves abroad — the Stabilization Fund Russia spent two decades building, now sitting in a Belgian vault as collateral for Ukrainian reconstruction loans.

    ≈ €210B EU + ~$5B US + Japan/UK + others; Euroclear holds ~90% of EU share·Brookings; EU Commission
  • 07

    One year of defence budget could fund free university tuition for every one of Russia’s ≈ 4.1 million higher-ed students for ≈ 10 years — the entire student card of two consecutive generations.

    13.49 trln RUB ÷ (4.1M × 330,000 RUB) ≈ 10 years·Statista; Russian MoE tuition floors
  • 08

    A typical regional signing bonus (≈ 1.4M RUB / $17,700) for one contract soldier ≈ 18 months of an average Russian teacher’s gross salary — paid for one signature in a voenkomat.

    1,400,000 RUB ÷ 78,000 RUB/mo ≈ 18 months·The Moscow Times

Numbers carry wide uncertainty. Roughly 84% of Russian defence spending is classified; published figures are floors, not totals. Cited sources are Western and independent Russian analytical reports — Bank of Finland (BOFIT), SIPRI, Re:Russia, Carnegie, Mediazona × BBC, OSW, the Moscow Times. See each line for the source URL.