Moscow has placed its defense industry on a war footing in a bid to sustain its forces in Ukraine with no end in sight to the bloody conflict.
Russia needs to up the number and quality of its weapons heading for Ukraine to maintain Moscow's push on Ukraine's defensive lines, Russia's top defense official has said, ahead of a likely summer offensive expected to start in the coming weeks.
In early February, Russian President Vladimir Putin said increased defense investment had created more than half a million jobs in the previous 18 months.Ukrainian officials have warned that Russia is gearing up to launch a summer offensive on Ukrainian positions as early as the end of May. Ukraine's own summer offensive last year failed to produce the significant gains Kyiv and the country's Western backers had hoped for.
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