You can really see how full of bullshit and "well it doesn't affect me so just let me GO" russian culture/society is through this.
My country is a mess but if there ever was a mass attack that required soldiers to be walking around with MANPADs/guided anti-air missile launchers on public highways and bridges, I sure as hell know those soldiers wouldn't stand with a public road WITH TRAFFIC MOVING ON IT between them and their target while aiming the rocket launcher, and the surrounding civilians sure as hell wouldn't just sit by as vehicle after vehicle passes right in front of a soldier attempting to fire a guided missile pointed directly at cars from point blank without speaking up.
It really shows how little any individual in russia gives a shit about any of the cultural and societal norms around them being related to reality at all, it also exposes a pathetic lack of basic safety culture in russia.
Nobody had a plan there, they were all just bullshitting. There is no excuse for russia to not have established air defense plans this late into the war, russia is a broken, dysfunctional country.
Edit if the US starts giving ICE agents Stinger launchers for drones we could definitely see that kind of incredibly incompetent and dangerous casual wielding of a missile launcher around civilians, I meant the actual US military not the Gestapo. Even still though, in the US people would be yelling "go to the other side of the road what the hell are you doing!!!!?".