Rate on quantity: Russia is growing weapons, how much else can you fight - wp

Moscow has re -arranged her forces, repairing old Soviet equipment. However, its stocks are limited. The key issue will be the opportunity to move to the production of new combat vehicles when old models for modernization will end. Russia has increased production of weapons by replenishing the reserves of standard weapons and ammunition, and will probably be able to maintain an offensive on Ukraine for at least two years.

This is the opinion of the analysts with whom the journalists of The Washington Post. The publication calls this assessment of a sober for Kiev, which is lack of weapons and soldiers, and also loses its position on the battlefield. The Kremlin tries to expand its own capacity and develop modern weapons that could increase the effectiveness of the Russian army on the battlefield.

Moscow uses its superiority of personnel, the ability to equip their soldiers with old but reliable weapons and a willingness to bear great losses. Analysts believe that thanks to the re -alignment of the economy in the military system, the work of available enterprises at full capacity for the production or restoration of old equipment, as well as the purchase of spare parts in Iran, China and North Korea, Russia has quickly resumed its positions after previous losses in Ukraine.

"Russia does not produce more of its modern military equipment. But it produces much more simple working equipment, rifles, shells, mass weapons for mass soldiers," - quotes The Washington Post of the Russian economist Nicholas Kulbak. The publication states that due to the slowdown of Western military assistance in Kiev in recent months, Russian troops have taken the initiative in Ukraine, where they can shoot from artillery and deploy drones at much more speed than Ukrainians.

Russia has re -arranged its troops, modernizing old Soviet equipment. Details from China, North Korea and Iran have inappropriate quality, experts say, but their purchase has demonstrated Moscow's ability to bypass sanctions. US officials initially believed that the war in Ukraine had seriously weakened the Russian army.

But Commander -in -Chief of the US Armed Forces in Europe, General Christopher Cavoli this month said in Congress that the Russian Federation now has more soldiers than at the beginning of a full -scale invasion. In addition, its armed forces "demonstrated the accelerated ability to learn and adapt to the challenges on the battlefield both tactically and technological terms.

" The publication reminds that at the end of last year Vladimir Putin approved a record increase in military expenses by 2024. It is $ 115 billion - it is almost a third of the annual budget of the Russian Federation. This amount is twice exceeding the funds allocated for the army in 2021, the year before the invasion of Ukraine. In recent months, Russian high -ranking officials, including Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigh, have stated record indicators.

The military-industrial complex increased the production of armored vehicles four times, the supply of tanks-five times, and the production of drones and artillery shells-almost 17 times. However, these figures cannot be verified because the government does not reveal the statistics of military production and war expenditures, as well as the military often use fancy records, combining new and restored equipment to show positive results, writes The Washington Post.

It is also impossible to check whether the assertion of the military leadership of the Russian Federation is true that the MIC in 2023 produced 1500 tanks. The Analyst on the Land Wars of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) of London Analytical Center Michael Griestad believes that Russia can produce up to 330 tanks a year, but actually produces half of this figure.

According to experts, a key challenge for Russia is to develop potential for creating new fighting machines when it will end with old models for modernization. The last new T-80 tank has been built decades ago. In addition, Russia also increases the production of drones. She concluded an agreement with Iran to create a SHahred drone in Tatarstan. And the significant growth of the production of lancet drone.

According to analysts, in order to bypass sanctions, Russia has created new supply chains to obtain western components for high -tech military equipment through Turkey, China and Kazakhstan, while the event is trying to ensure their observance. According to a report of the Ukrainian Center for Defense Strategies, Russia was also able to receive nitrocellulose supply - substances necessary for the production of explosives such as artillery shells, including Germany, Taiwan and China.