Russia still controls a significant part of Ukraine, and Putin has said Moscow will prevail despite Ukraine’s fierce resistance and Kyiv receiving billions of dollars of Western arms along with military intelligence and other aid.
He announced this week that the state would ensure the army’s needs were met with “no funding restrictions”, but said there was no need to “militarize” the economy.
On Friday, he told defense industry chiefs that he wanted to hear their proposals on how to address unspecified problems and wanted defense industry experts to work directly with frontline forces to refine weapons and hardware on a regular basis. Do it.
The defense industry is under pressure to deliver.
A trade union leader in the Ural region told the TASS news agency last week that companies involved in defense orders moved to a six-day week with workers working shifts of up to 12 hours.
Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu visited the Kalashnikov weapons factory in Izhevsk on Friday and told its director that the state would make “significant increases” from the plant next year, the Zvezda military news channel said.