A Russian missile found in southeastern Ukraine contained 'foreign components', an adviser to Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said. And Polish truck drivers are striking tomorrow in protest against competition from Ukraine, with border officials warning checkpoints could be blocked.
Throughout the war, our experts and senior correspondents have been answering your questions.After reports that more than one million artillery shells have been shipped from North Korea to Russia, reader 'Confused' asked why Russia can't make its own weaponry.Moscow correspondent Diana Magnay had this to say...Russia does make its own weapons and ammunition - huge quantities of it, given the national focus on the war.
The 'new territories', illegally annexed Ukrainian land, will also take a chunk out of that budget. But the massive ramping up of military production has boosted GDP, driving economic growth in those affected industrial segments.That is all against the backdrop of Western sanctions, whose key aim is to degrade Russia's ability to keep fighting this war.Yes, they do mean Russia is forced to improvise and to look elsewhere for arms and tech components for its weapons.
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