Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday that Russian arms companies will “significantly” increase their supplies this year to help Russian forces inflict a “devastating defeat” on Ukraine, Reuters and Agerpres reported.

“Our armed forces regularly receive new deliveries of several types of missiles. In 2023, supplies of all types of weapons will increase significantly,” wrote Dmytro Medvedev, who is currently the vice president of the Security Council of the Russian Federation and supervises the government commission on the production of weapons of the Russian military industry. social media.

Western capitals and some military analysts say Russia’s military is running out of ammunition and other military supplies after it has fired millions of shells and thousands of rockets since the start of the war against Ukraine. However, Russian officials say that the Moscow forces still have enough resources to continue the “special forces operation” in Ukraine.

In the post, which is accompanied by photos of him visiting an arms factory, Medvedev says the new supplies will allow Russia to “deliver a crushing defeat to the Ukrainian neo-Nazis who are supplied with weapons” by Western powers.

Ukraine will receive longer-range missiles from the US

At this time, the United States is preparing a new package of military aid to Kyiv worth about 2.2 billion dollars, which for the first time will include Ground Launched Small Diameter Bombs (GLSDB), they are being assembled. biplane missiles that can be guided to targets at a distance of up to 150 kilometers and can be launched using salvo fire systems that Ukraine has already received from its Western allies.

This would significantly increase the 80-kilometer range of the HIMARS missile launchers, which have already changed the course of the war, and cover almost all Ukrainian territory occupied by Russian forces, with the exception of Crimea, possibly forcing Moscow to relocate its warehouses. ammunition and other military facilities much further from the front line, probably even directly on the territory of Russia.

But the arrival of new American weapons will not be instantaneous, and for now Russia has taken the initiative on the battlefield for the first time since last summer. In recent days, Moscow has announced the advance of its troops to the north and south of the city of Bakhmut, which is the main focus of this new winter offensive.

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