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John T Psaropoulos

Russia races ahead of NATO in weapons production for Ukraine war: SIPRI

Russia's President Vladimir Putin, accompanied by head of the Republic of Sakha Aisen Nikolayev, inspects models of weapons and equipment produced in the far eastern regions for the Russian armed forces involved in the country's military campaign in Ukraine, as he visits the city of Yakutsk [File: Sputnik/Petr Kovalev/Pool via Reuters]

New research shows that the revenues of Russia’s top defence contractors outpaced those of their United States and European counterparts last year, as they increased weapons production more effectively than their Western rivals.

The figures, released today by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) in its annual report on the world’s top 100 defence companies, raise questions about the West’s ability to supply Ukraine with the weapons it needs to defeat Russia’s invasion.

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