Russia plans to manufacture nearly 3M artillery shells within year, Ukrainian intelligence
Illustrative photo (Photo: Russian media)
Last year, the Russian Federation produced approximately 2 million rounds of ammunition of calibers 122 mm and 152 mm, and this year they aim to reach a quantity of 2.7 million, said Deputy Chief of the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine, Major General Vadym Skibitskyi, in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.
"Our assessment is that Russians produced last year - simply fulfilled the state defense order - it's about 2 million rounds of ammunition of caliber 122 mm, 152 mm. But these are plans. Let's see if they will be implemented," Skibitskyi said.
Skibitskyi added that the announced volumes require modernization of production, and sanctions play an important role in countering this.
"We ask our partners that sanctions should be aimed at machine tools, materials used to make electronic chips, microcircuits, and so on. So, it's a very wide range, in this direction, the Defense Intelligence is currently working, and our entire intelligence community. This concerns everything related to the production of weapons. And I'm not even talking about the number of enterprises that Russia has involved in production," the major general noted.
He emphasizes that dozens of enterprises, companies are involved in the production of one or another ammunition or type of weapons and equipment.
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