Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday that his country was inflicting heavy blows on Ukraine along the front line, but that the supply of weapons was key to ensuring the success of what Moscow calls its “military operation”. special”.
In a meeting with top Russian military officials, Shoigu said Russian forces are engaged in combat operations “along the entire line of contact” and are fighting not only against Ukraine but also against “military assistance not supported”.
However, he said Russia was successfully targeting Ukrainian depots storing Western-supplied weapons.
Shoigu said Moscow had taken steps to ramp up its weapons production in support of the war, saying the success of Russian forces on the battlefield “will largely depend on the timely replenishment of weapons” and other military equipment.
“The country’s leadership has assigned defense companies to ramp up the pace and volume of production in a short time,” Shoigu said, according to a transcript of his comments released by his ministry.
Shoigu said the army has all the munitions it needs for battlefield use this year, but asked a major missile maker to urgently double its output of high-precision missiles.
Over the past few days, Russia has killed and injured dozens of people in its largest attacks on Ukraine in recent weeks.
On Monday, the head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose troops are leading the attack on the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, renewed his allegation that the defense ministry is not supplying enough ammunition to its fighters. Prigozhin said he needed 300 tons a day of artillery ammunition, but was only getting a third of it.
Source: Terra
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