"Bad advertising": Putin is ready to sell weapons by ignoring failures in Ukraine - Reuters

At the same time, the army of the aggressor country in six months of war in Ukraine proved much worse than expected. About it writes journalist of Reuters Mark Treweelyan. "The troops, rejected from the two largest cities in Ukraine, and slowly moving forward with great losses in the eastern provinces, have proven to be an unconvincing demonstration for the Russian military industry," the observer comments.

Speaking at today's opening of the forum in the Moscow region, Putin stressed that Russian technologies are ahead of the production of competitors for years. In particular, the Kremlin head spoke about "precision weapons and robotics", which the Russian Federation is ready to offer to its business partners. However, according to Trevelian, the war in Ukraine can undermine Putin's advertising campaign.

"With the collapse of economic relations with the West, Russia has become even more dependent on weapons than before, so it is not surprising that Putin so strives to promote it among the most non -Western clients.

A big problem for him is that Russia's war against Ukraine has become A catastrophe for the authority of the Russian military - their actions were very poor advertising of weapons, " - said the senior teacher of the Department of Military Research of Royal College of London Ruth Deermond. For retired, American retired Ben Hodges, for his part, recalled that the proportion of refusals of Russian high -precision missiles during the war in Ukraine reached 60%.

At the same time, the sanctions imposed against the aggressor country do not allow the Russians to buy the necessary components for weapons abroad, which will also have a negative impact on the military-industrial complex of the Russian Federation. Russia ranks second after the US in the amount of weapons sales worth about $ 15 billion a year, which is almost a fifth of the world export market.

According to Reuters with reference to the data of the Stockholm International Institute for World Research, from 2017 to 2021, 73% of these sales accounted for only four countries - India, China, Egypt and Algeria. We will remind, on August 15, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke at the Forum "Army-2022", during which he made several loud and questionable statements.