Putin tells defence chiefs to do more for troops in Ukraine

 

Putin tells defence chiefs to do more for troops in Ukraine

Russian leader says the country’s military-industrial complex should provide the army with everything they need. .

ceives all the weapons, equipment and military hardware it needs to fight in Ukraine.

Putin, who has cast Russia’s war in Ukraine as part of an historic effort to push back against what he has said is excessive Western influence, made Friday’s comments during a visit to Tula, a centre for arms manufacturing. 

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“The most important key task of our military-industrial complex is to provide our units and front-line forces with everything they need: weapons, equipment, ammunition, and gear in the necessary quantities and of the right quality in the shortest possible timeframes,” said Putin.

“It’s also important to perfect and significantly improve the technical characteristics of weapons and equipment for our fighters based on the combat experience we have gained.”

Putin said this week that the Russian army had to learn from and fix the problems it had suffered from in Ukraine, promising to provide whatever it needed to prosecute a war nearing the end of its 10th month.

Since tens of thousands of Russian troops invaded Ukraine on February 24 in what Putin called “a special military operation”, Moscow has ceded about half of the territory it initially seized.

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Putin has conceded that a September mobilisation campaign to add about 300,000 troops did not go to plan and has ordered that shortfalls, which have sometimes included a lack of basic equipment and training, be urgently addressed .