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China’s role in Russia’s defense industry keeps growing with Chinese companies exporting monthly totals of over $300 million worth of dual-use products identified by the West as “high priority” items necessary for the production of Russian weapons, according to Nathaniel Sher of Carnegie China.
Russia to increase arms production, speed up weapons deliveries, Shoigu says. Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has ordered for an increase in weapons production, with the goal of delivering weaponry to the front quicker, Russia's Defense Ministry shared on May 1.
Moscow says missile production once banned under INF Treaty is moving ahead: Russian diplomats say the country is “intensifying the refinement and commencing the production” of ground-based missile systems with medium and short-range missiles that were previously banned under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. Moscow made the announcement on Monday in connection with the news about preparations for drills with tactical nuclear weapons. The Foreign Ministry also tied its announcement to “recent bellicose statements by Western officials,” as well as the West’s supply of increasingly advanced weapons to Ukraine and the supposed involvement of the “Kyiv regime” in terrorism against Russia. Moscow also accused Washington of deploying identical missile systems for exercises in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. Additionally, Russia’s Foreign Ministry warned that it views American F-16 fighter jets in Ukraine as potential carriers of nuclear weapons.
GUR assessment of Russian missile production and stockpile:
-40 Tsirkon in service and up to 10 produced per month -400 Oniks / Oniks-M and up to 10 produced per month -270 Kalibr and 30-40 produced per month
-45 Kh-65 and 1-3 produced per month
The US State Department has announced that the Russian army in Ukraine is violating the international ban on the use of chemical weapons. The Russians are using chloropicrin, an asphyxiant and tear gas, against the Ukrainian military, which is banned by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
Russia launched counterspace weapon into orbit, US says. Wood described the move as "troubling." Pentagon spokesperson Brigadier General Pat Ryder separately said on May 21 the U.S. was monitoring the situation and had a "responsibility to be ready to protect and defend... the space domain."
2.11 Polls & Sociology
President Vladimir Putin set a goal for Russians to live longer even as
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