1/ Prominent Russian sources are warning that soldiers returning from Ukraine, many of them with PTSD and unable to find jobs, are prime candidates for recruitment into crime and terrorism – especially highly-skilled drone operators. ⬇️ 
2/ Former Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin notes that in just one Russian drone unit, "there are dozens of highly qualified pilot-operators with hundreds of combat sorties and thousands of flight hours", with more having already returned home after completing their contract.
3/ He questions what they will do after the war: "[In] modern cities there are hundreds of thousands of different surveillance cameras, servers with software for decrypting numbers and recognizing faces, but all of them will be useless if suddenly illegal actions are committed…
4/ …by highly qualified UAV operators with extensive combat experience.
Who is watching you and from where, who flew in and when and where from, where did they fly away, how was the drone controlled, from what distance, was a repeater used or not? Was it day, night or twilight?
Who is watching you and from where, who flew in and when and where from, where did they fly away, how was the drone controlled, from what distance, was a repeater used or not? Was it day, night or twilight?
5/ "Was there remote mining, was a magnetic-influence fuze installed on the bomb? Which door, window, or vent did the drone fly into, was the drone-interceptor objectively monitoring the work of the destroyer drone?
6/ "Are all these questions of interest to competent law enforcement officers? Have they ever thought that one day they will have to look for answers to them? Do they even understand anything about this, do they understand it?
7/ "I will ask myself again: why am I saying this? I will answer myself: it is not we who should ask ourselves these questions and give answers to them, but those on whom we rely in matters of ensuring public safety and law and order.
8/ "Are they monitoring what happened at the front? Do they understand that advanced military technologies have appeared that, under certain circumstances, can also be used for criminal purposes?
9/ "Do investigators from the FSB, Investigative Committee and the Ministry of Internal Affairs understand this issue, do they understand what is what? Do they have the appropriate specialists and the ability to counteract or at least establish the facts?
10/ "The war will end sooner or later, and our soldiers will go home. The war will end briefly and will soon flare up with even greater force. And my guys will take up the fight again. I am confident in them. But I cannot answer for everyone else.
11/ "Therefore, it would be advisable for officials to reread this post, think about it, become interested in the problem and start cooperating with specialised army and volunteer units that have mastered the technology of unmanned remotely operating systems."
12/ 'Two Majors' agrees and admits:
"Of course, we will have a huge problem after the return of hundreds of thousands of front-line soldiers with PTSD, much worse than it was after Chechnya or Afghanistan."
"Of course, we will have a huge problem after the return of hundreds of thousands of front-line soldiers with PTSD, much worse than it was after Chechnya or Afghanistan."
13/ "And the guys themselves say that on vacation or when communicating with civilians, they feel unnecessary there, in peaceful life. Unfortunately, resocialisation programs are still in their infancy. Front-line soldiers often do not know where to go if they end up at home.
14/ "The guys write to us and the volunteers, worried that they are not needed at home and will not find a job with the same salary.
15/ "Quotas are allocated, employers are obliged to hire our heroes. But for this process to be structured right – this is not the case. It's capitalism, you're on your own.
16/ "Comrade Rogozin, being the head of a high-tech unit, sees risks of a new nature, previously unknown to law enforcement and special services in the rear: drones.
17/ "And indeed, the "strategists" have already lost out during an enemy special operation, and after all, less protected objects can already become the target.
18/ "And we are not talking about terrorism, but about the risks of the participation of a UAV operator with combat experience in criminal showdowns. No one is saying that a veteran = crime.
18/ "But a lot of people have already been to the front, and in a year, the current front-line soldiers will return. Some tiny percentage already [amounts to] hundreds of people.
20/ "❗️And here is the main question: are we, as a country, as a state, taking enough measures to take our heroes back and integrate them into our society? Are the internal affairs agencies, and not only them, now thinned out by the personnel crisis, ready?
21/ "Such reflections should result not in demonstrative measures and individual regulatory legal acts, which are happening now, but in systemic state measures.
22/ "By the way, while we were typing, the thought occurred to me that our special services could theoretically soon begin investigating, for example, the liquidation of particularly brazen and overfed heads of diasporas, organized crime groups, using drones." /end
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