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.
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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.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 05
470 million teacher-monthly-salary equivalents — enough to pay every Russian schoolteacher a Moscow-tier salary for a generation.
- 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.
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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.
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.