Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to proceed equipping his army with ‘complex’ apparatus on Thursday in a televised deal with on Defender of the Fatherland Day, a vacation seen around the nation in party of the military.
“A modern, efficient army and navy are the gauge of a country’s security and sovereignty, a gauge of its stable development, of its future. Therefore, as before, we will pay priority attention to strengthening our defence capabilities” he stated.
The president additionally attended a rite in Moscow and laid wreaths on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier out of doors the Kremlin prior to assembly Russian army veterans.
Putin stated Russia will “conduct the balanced and high-quality development of all components of the armed forces” particularly by way of equipping troops with “new strike systems, reconnaissance and communication equipment, drones and artillery systems”.
“Now our industry is rapidly increasing the production of an entire range of conventional weapons,” he stated.
Putin additionally hailed Russian infantrymen, who’re preventing “heroically” in Ukraine and “defending our people in our historical lands”.
Last autumn he introduced the mobilisation of 300,000 reservists to spice up Russia’s ranks in Ukraine.
During his twenty years in energy, Putin has made strengthening the military a most sensible precedence and has presented hypersonic guns, which he described as “invincible”, to Russia’s arsenal.
According to quite a lot of Western assets, there were an estimated 150,000 casualties on each Russian and Ukrainian facets.
As the battle hits its one-year anniversary, Kyiv is anxiously looking forward to Western companions to ship tanks and ammunition to refill depleting shares.
On Thursday, Spain’s Defence Minister Margarita Robles showed Madrid would ship six of its German-made Leopard tanks to strengthen Ukraine’s battle in opposition to Russia.
The announcement preceded Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s arrival in Kyiv the place he met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
On his Facebook web page, Zelenskyy wrote “we have felt the solidarity of Spain since the first days of the full-scale war. Thank you for all your help and support!”
