Deal to swap around 200 PoWs from each side comes after contested claim that Kyiv downed plane carrying Ukrainian soldiersRussia’s Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has told military manufacturers to “stop fooling around” and further increase the production of self-propelled artillery systems.Shoigu visited arms-producing factories in the Urals industrial city of Yekaterinburg on Tuesday and said Russia was increasing production of air defence missiles after a series of Ukrainian drone attacks that have targeted cities and energy infrastructure.Listen, stop fooling around here, guys. We got busy with this in 2022. We should have had these machines operating at full capacity in 2023.I’d like to receive within a week a specific proposal on how we’ll reach the indicators set by the president (Vladimir Putin) … this must be done, because all these orders are connected with the performance of very specific work on the battlefield. Continue reading…
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Author : Rachel Hall (now) and Warren Murray (earlier)
Publish date : 2024-01-31 15:40:38
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Russia-Ukraine war live: Russia and Ukraine exchange prisoners of war
