About eight months after the start of its military operations on Ukrainian soil, Moscow appears to be starting to face further setbacks.
American intelligence confirmed this Western sanctions The toll imposed on Russia has severely limited its ability to renew the ammunition and weapons it uses in Ukraine.
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A new analysis recently released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence also showed that Russian authorities have been forced to hire their intelligence services. Find roundaboutsto circumvent restrictions imposed on him in order to purchase vital technology for his military industry and support his war effort.
A Russian tank destroyed in Kharkiv (Reuters)
More than 6,000 pieces of equipment have been lost since the conflict began, intelligence revealed, as the Russian military struggles to acquire the microchips, motors and thermal imaging technology needed to create new weapons.
The soldiers are also running out of ammunition
This information was put on the table yesterday during a meeting with senior financial officials from nearly 30 countries at the U.S. Treasury to get an update from Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Ademo, Deputy Secretary of Commerce Don Greaves, and Deputy Director of the Treasury. national intelligence Morgan Muir on the effectiveness of the sanctions imposed on Russia, to stifle its military-industrial activity.
As Ademo explained in a CNN interview, “The Russians currently don’t have the tanks they need, and they don’t have the equipment needed to build helicopters, and they also lack the semiconductors needed to launch precision missiles on the. Ukraine”.
Russian Ka-52 helicopter
He added: “Russia is running out of fighters, soldiers, ammunition, tanks and others.”
He stressed that “Washington and its allies are trying to use sanctions and export controls to make it difficult for Russia to strengthen its forces and equipment needed to continue the war.”
Interestingly, Western sanctions and restrictions imposed on exports to Russia months ago forced many defense industrial structures to shut down periodically.
Two of the largest microelectronics manufacturers in the country were recently forced to temporarily stop production because they were unable to secure the necessary foreign components.
The shortage of some necessary parts has also undermined the production of tanks, planes, submarines and other military systems.
