In Russia, defense enterprises refuse to repair military equipment

Russian defense enterprises refuse to repair damaged military equipment of the military. It is reported by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.

The conflict between the military leadership of the Russian Federation and the directors of defense plants increasingly excludes the possibility of deporting new combat armored vehicles to the combat zone, the intelligence officers said.

They noted that during the Russian-Ukrainian war, the defenders of Ukraine neutralized more than 40 percent of combat-ready tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers of the occupation units only from the Southern Military District of Russia.

Their restoration should be carried out at special repair enterprises, the GUR clarifies.

According to scouts, when delivering damaged equipment to repair plants, the occupiers completely dismantle it, and sell spare parts and assemblies or exchange them for alcohol. Sometimes only burnt skeletons of infantry fighting vehicles and tanks reach the factories.

Directors of repair enterprises instructed employees not to accept equipment for repair. They motivate this by the lack of components and insufficient amounts of funds coming from the military for the work already completed, the report says.

They note that the command tried to save the situation with the help of specially created repair teams, which should restore equipment near the combat zones.

However, corruption and greed among the Russian military leadership brought this attempt to naught, the GUR added.