Sales of Russian weapons have fallen significantly since 2014, which, in turn, may be due to the enormous losses of Putin’s army in the war with Ukraine.
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About the fact that, according to an analysis conducted by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the scale of arms exports from the Russian Federation fell by 53 percent in the periods from 2014 to 2018 and from 2019 to 2023, and also the what are the reasons for such “subsidence”, writes “NBN”, referring to the official X-account of the UK Ministry of Defense.
In particular, due to the trend described above, the terrorist state dropped from 2nd to 3rd place in the global ranking of arms exports: supplies of Russian weapons in 2023 decreased by 52 percent, in compared to 2022. In addition, only the governments of 12 countries wished to receive the main types of Russian weapons in 2023, while in 2019, 31 states bought weapons from the Russian Federation.
British military intelligence analysts listed the key factors that provoked the above-described decrease:
- Russian occupation forces give priority to domestic equipment for conducting operations in Ukraine, regularly making up for significant losses;
- from “clients” In the Russian Federation, requests have decreased due to expectations of retaliatory sanctions and global condemnation of Moscow for unleashing a war against Ukraine.
We previously wrote about the fact that the number of military personnel in the Russian Federation has increased significantly disabled people due to the invasion of Ukraine.
