Russia Has Spent Much Of Its Precision-Guided Munitions: Pentagon

Sanctions have started to bit Russia’s industrial base capabilities, with a senior US defense official saying on May 9 that Russia “has blown through a lot of their precision-guided munition (PGM)” and continues to hit Mariupol with a lot of “dumb bombs,” Kyiv Independent reported on May 10, 2022.

Photo Insert: Russia faces difficulties replacing PGMs, and the sanctions and the export controls, particularly when it comes to electronic components, have affected Russia’s defense industrial base.

The official added that Russia faces difficulties replacing PGMs, and the sanctions and the export controls, particularly when it comes to electronic components, have affected Russia’s defense industrial base.

Ukrainian troops have repelled 15 Russian attacks in Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Russia lost an anti-aircraft missile system, nine tanks, three artillery systems, 25 units of combat armored vehicles, three units of special engineering equipment, and three cars. Air defense units also took down one Orlan-10 drone.

Bloomberg has confirmed that Russia is suffering its worst recession in three decades. The country’s gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to shrink by 12% as a result of the sanctions imposed due to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, according to an internal Finance Ministry forecast obtained by Bloomberg in Moscow.

A potential oil embargo, a decline in Russian gas consumption by EU countries, and the mass exodus of foreign companies from the Russian market were named as the key reasons for the worst expected downturn since 1994.

Natalia Lavrova, chief economist at BCS Financial Group, said the trend is likely to expand gradually, “with a lot of negative carrying over into 2023.”

Ukraine’s military has reported that Russia has lost 25,650 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24. A total of 1,145 tanks were destroyed, along with 2,764 armored personnel carriers, 1,970 vehicles and fuel tanks, 513 artillery systems, 185 multiple launch rocket systems, 87 anti-aircraft defense systems, 158 helicopters, 199 aircraft, 377 UAVs, and 12 boats.

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