Russia “is much lower than many people think,” said the Power Power Power Power Vertical and Ukraine, deputy defense secretary for Russia and Ukraine, between 2015 and 2017, at Power Vertical Podcast.
For example, Carpenter said that a large part of Russia’s amplified military production went directly to the front lines of his war in Ukraine.
“Although it has considerably accelerated its military production, it essentially uses all this production in the weeks following the deployment of the factory,” he said.
Russia has traveled its vast stocks of equipment from the Soviet era at an amazing rate since its launch of its large -scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
In February, the International Institute of Strategic Studies estimated that Russia had lost 14,000 main battle tanks, infantry combat vehicles and armored troop carriers since the start of the large -scale invasion.
A Russian reservoir destroyed on the roadside in Kursk. Photo AP
Pavel Luzin, senior member of the Center for European Policy analysis, predicted in January that “2025 will be last year which can rely on its massive stocks of conventional weapons from the Soviet era, in particular artillery, the main battle tanks and armored vehicles”.
If the losses of Russia continue as they did, he said that in the middle of the year, Russia will depend on the newly manufactured weapons.
Dependence on others
Russia is based more and more on its allies such as Iran and North Korea to cover any deficit in ammunition.
The analysis recently published by Reuters and the research group on the Open Source Center revealed that up to 100% of the ammunition used by Russia in certain commitments from North Korea.
“There is no excess storage that the Russians have that they could use if they were sort of cut from their Chinese sponsors, or also from their Iranian and North Korean supporters,” said Carpenter.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s own supply problems are well documented and could get worse while the White House Trump cools its support.
Ukraine claims that its local production of military drones – vital on the front line of this conflict – is now the largest in the world.
There has also been a historic boost to European defense funding through the Rearm Europe initiative, announced in early March, which aims to unlock around $ 840 billion in defense funding for the continent and Ukraine.
However, there is no sign that the efforts of military production – or the fighting of Russia are put.
In April, the American army general Christopher Cavoli, Supreme Allied Commander of NATO in Europe, told the Senate committee of armed services that Russia was on the right track to build a 155 mm stock of shells “three times higher in the United States and in combined Europe”.
Moscow is also on the right track to replace most of its vital equipment lost in 2024, he added.
In a vertical episode of the following power, military analyst Michael Kofman said that after a winter lull, Russia “renewed the offensive intensity”, with combined mechanized aggressions which he described as a “mad max approach”.
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