Addressing a gathering of prime Russian Protection Ministry officers on Monday, Putin revealed that Moscow is presently spending 6.3% of its gross home product on protection.
“To ensure that all within the parts of the nation’s life – the financial system, the social sphere within the broadest sense of the phrase, science, training, healthcare – to develop, we will’t improve these bills infinitely,” the president stated.
Putin famous that Russia’s present stage of protection spending continues to be not as excessive as in some nations all over the world not presently engaged in armed conflicts.
“Nonetheless, that is some huge cash, and we have to use it very moderately,” he added, from funds to troops and the efficient work of the navy business to supplying the navy with tools, weapons and ammunition.
“It is rather necessary to obtain every part on time, to appropriately consider what’s obtained, to have the ability to use it and to coach personnel, to do it appropriately and successfully,” Putin instructed the Russian Protection Ministry management.
Whereas Russia will take measures to make sure the safety of itself and its allies, this might be completed “fastidiously and thoughtfully, with out getting drawn right into a full-scale arms race to the detriment of the social and financial improvement of our nation”, the president defined.
Classes of the navy operation in Ukraine should be utilized to the protection business, by way of priorities for weapons improvement and the introduction of superior applied sciences, Putin stated, including that the manufacturing of drones particularly must be elevated.
Through the assembly, Putin revealed that greater than 430,000 Russians have enlisted voluntarily within the armed forces.
Strategic nuclear forces stay one of many key devices for defending Russia’s sovereignty and their modernization has already reached 95%, the president said. The brand new intermediate-range hypersonic missile, Oreshnik, could be as highly effective as a nuclear weapon if utilized in volleys, however with none fallout, in keeping with Putin.
The West’s help for Ukraine is pushing Russia to the purpose the place it can not assist however retaliate, Putin stated, whereas warning the US towards deploying medium-range missiles.
He accused the US of in search of “to weaken our nation and inflict a strategic defeat” on Moscow by persevering with “to pump a de facto illegitimate ruling regime in Kiev with weapons and cash, sending mercenaries and navy advisers, thereby encouraging additional escalation of the battle”.
Washington is instilling worry in Individuals by resorting to “easy ways,” Putin said.
“They push us to the purple line… we start to reply, after which they frighten their inhabitants,” he added, suggesting that the US used the identical strategy throughout its rivalry with the Soviet Union.
The Russian president additionally slammed the West for what he described as makes an attempt to impose its personal guidelines on the remainder of the world whereas waging “hybrid wars” towards anybody who resists, together with Russia.
On this vein, NATO is boosting its protection spending and forming “strike teams” close to Russia’s borders, he continued.
“The variety of American service members in Europe has already exceeded 100,000 troops,” he famous.
