Medvedev will “encourage” the heads of defense plants with Stalin’s telegrams

Deputy head of the Security Council of Russia, former president Dmitry Medvedev believes that the directors of modern Russian defense-industrial enterprises should read the military telegrams of the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. “To cheer up,” Dmitry Medvedev said in response to a question from a VKontakte user. A video recording with a response was published in Medvedev’s Telegram channel.

At the same time, he rejected reports about the shortage of weapons in the Russian army, which regularly appear in Western analytical reports. “Our enemies believe that our industry will choke, it will not succeed. Endless conversations – we have run out of shells, we have run out of tanks, we have run out of missiles, etc. (according to pre-war estimates, Russia produced about 150 tanks per hour — RS). Calculate how much our adversary will receive even according to the most optimistic calculations, and that’s the answer,” Medvedev said. He also reported that new weapons production was being launched in Russia “as it became necessary.”

After the start of Russia’s full-scale military invasion of Ukraine, international sanctions were imposed, which prevented the Russian military-industrial complex from producing and maintaining “critically important” weapons. We are talking not only about high-tech components, but also about simple parts, for example, about bearings. Therefore, it is difficult to repair tanks, airplanes and other equipment.

According to data from the declassified report of the White House, as early as last May, Russia began to experience a shortage of equipment and weapons. In addition, since the beginning of the war, the Russian army has lost thousands of pieces of equipment, and ammunition is used up faster than it is produced.

In order to make up for the lack of equipment in the combat zone, Soviet tanks, the development of which began back in the Second World War, are being transferred to Ukraine.

This, according to the group of investigators of the Conflict Intelligence Team, which published photos of railway trains with Soviet tanks, indicates serious problems in providing the armed forces of Russia with military equipment.

On the platforms of the train, which these days moves from the Far East to the west of Russia, T-54 tanks removed from conservation, the development of which began even before the end of the Second World War. Before that, the oldest tanks used by the Russian army against Ukraine were the T-62, manufactured since 1961.