Putin meets with representatives of the Russian military industry

MADRID, 23 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Russian President Vladimir Putin met this Friday with different representatives of the Russian military industry in an attempt to improve cooperation with companies in the sector and to guarantee the quality of weapons material.

"The most important task of our military-industrial complex is to supply our front-line units and forces with what is necessary: ​​weapons, equipment, ammunition and supplies in the necessary volumes and with the appropriate quality in the shortest possible timeframes," he said in a statement. press conference from the Russian city of Tula.

Likewise, it has specified that it awaits "pertinent" reports and proposals to address "problematic issues" on military material. "Proposals on how we will move and what we will do to reduce these problems as much as possible," she added, as reported by the Interfax news agency.

Putin has stressed that various specialists and engineers from many companies "go directly" to the front line in Ukraine and "help quickly restore damaged equipment" or "return it to service and check how it works."

"I stress that such an information exchange mechanism to improve the quality of supplied military products must be permanent and as effective as possible," the Russian president clarified, adding that "feedback from units" participating in the "special military operation", a euphemism used by Moscow to refer to the war in Ukraine.

The Russian president has visited the Shcheglovsky Val military construction plant, which manufactures advanced weapons, accompanied by the region's governor, Alexei Dyumin, and the company's general director, Alexei Visloguzov.

Putin has been able to review the state of weapons in Tula, in particular Kornet-EM anti-tank missiles, as well as Pantsir-S anti-aircraft artillery systems, including the Arctic model, according to the TASS news agency.

Various reports from Western countries, in particular from US intelligence, have stated for months that Moscow is having difficulties replenishing its military material and that it does not have the capacity to replace or manufacture the technology lost on the front due to the effect of Western sanctions against the Russian industry.