Russian President Vladimir Putin met on Friday with various representatives of the Russian military industry in a bid to improve cooperation with companies in the sector and to ensure the quality of weapons equipment.
«The most important task of our military industrial complex is to supply what is necessary to our front-line units and forces: weapons, equipment, ammunition and accoutrements in the necessary volumes and with the right quality in the shortest possible time,» he said at a press conference in the Russian city of Tula.
He also said that he expects «relevant» reports and proposals to address «problematic issues» on military equipment. «Proposals on how we will move and what we will do to reduce these problems as much as possible,» he added, Interfax news agency reported.
Putin has stressed that different specialists and engineers from many companies «go directly» to the front line in Ukraine and «help to quickly restore damaged equipment» or «return it to service and check how it works.»
«I emphasize that such a mechanism of information exchange to improve the quality of supplied military products should be permanent and as effective as possible,» the Russian leader clarified, adding that «feedback from the units» involved in the «special military operation,» Moscow’s euphemism for the Ukrainian war, is essential.
The Russian president visited the Shcheglovsky Val military construction plant, which manufactures advanced weapons, accompanied by the governor of the region, Alexei Dyumin, and the general director of the company, Alexei Visloguzov.
Putin was able to review the state of armament at Tula, in particular Kornet-EM type anti-tank missiles, as well as Pantsir-S anti-aircraft artillery systems, including the Arctic model, TASS news agency reported.
Various reports from Western countries, in particular from U.S. Intelligence, have been claiming for months that Moscow is having difficulties in replenishing its military hardware and that it has no capacity to replenish or manufacture the technology lost on the front lines due to the effect of Western sanctions against Russian industry.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
