As of: February 25, 2024, 10:50 a.m
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The Russian defense industry will probably have to prepare for a shortage of qualified workers and high-tech manufacturing components in the Ukraine war.
Moscow - The NATO defense alliance is continuing to arm Ukraine so that it can defend itself against the attack by Russia, which violates international law.
For Vladimir Putin's Ukraine War: Russian arms industry is looking for skilled workers
Great Britain, for example, has sent Kiev's armed forces 200 more Brimstone anti-tank guided missiles, while Sweden is preparing to deliver ten Combat Boat 90 attack boats for the Dnipro front in the south of the battered country - among other things.
Meanwhile, Moscow has boosted its arms industry since its attack on its western neighbor.
However, as the online portal
Defense News
writes in an analysis from February 22nd, Russian weapons manufacturers apparently have to prepare for a shortage of qualified workers and high-tech manufacturing components.
Russian ruler Vladimir Putin (left) has a Mil Mi-17 military helicopter explained to him in a flight simulator at a defense factory.
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Arms industry in Russia: Apparently there is a shortage of up to 400,000 workers
Specifically, according to the former deputy head of the defense company Roscosmos, Yuri Borissov, the entire Russian defense industry will be short of up to 400,000 workers in the near future.
And that in the middle of the Ukraine war.
The online portal also quotes Irina Sokolova, who is a specialist at a Moscow recruitment agency.
“In the period between 2022 and 2023, the Russian defense industry has attracted almost the entire possible personnel reserve through salary increases,” she explained, according to
Defense News
: “It is becoming increasingly difficult to recruit specialists, unemployment in Russia is only about three percent.
Defense companies are already poaching personnel from each other.” The portal also points to the demographically aging population in the Russian Federation.
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Vladimir Putin's defense industry: Sanctions are causing problems for Russia
Added to this are the sanctions imposed by the West as a result of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, which was launched by Kremlin autocrat Vladimir Putin.
According to Pavel Luzin from the think tank
Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA),
the sanctions pressure has particularly affected those sectors in which Russia has long been dependent on Ukrainian products and components or established channels for procuring Western components.
This includes, for example, the aviation, space travel, shipbuilding and machine tool industries, all of which have points of contact with the defense industry.
Only on Friday (February 23) did American President Joe Biden announce 500 additional US sanctions in response to the mysterious death of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny - including against the Russian arms industry.
Biden said: “We are imposing new export restrictions on nearly 100 companies that provide backdoor support to Russia’s war machine.”
Russian losses in Ukraine: The arms industry must provide supplies
According to information from Moscow, the arms industry is currently running at full speed.
Just one example: “We have increased the production of ammunition for small arms and multiple rocket launchers 50-fold,” recently explained Sergei Chemesov, the managing director of the state-owned defense company Rostec.
The production of armored vehicles has increased 5.5 times and that of tanks even seven times, Chemesov said during a visit to the Kremlin.
The information cannot be independently verified.
The need for heavy military equipment is at least enormous due to the immense losses in Ukraine.
According to the Ukrainian General Staff from Kiev (see tweet above), the Russians are said to have lost more than 6,500 battle tanks since February 2022 (as of February 23).
According to
Spiegel
, the Kremlin is planning the largest military budget for 2024 since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The Russian Finance Ministry would now budget six percent of the gross domestic product instead of the previous 3.9, according to the report, the equivalent of an estimated 140 billion US dollars.
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