Leaked memo attributed to former Russian minister reports major shortcomings in the Russian army's equipment
@ChrisO_wiki: 1/ An apparently leaked memo attributed to former Russian minister Dmitri Rogozin reports major shortcomings in the Russian army's equipment, including artillery far inferior to Western equivalents, a ...…
An apparently leaked memo attributed to former Russian minister Dmitri Rogozin reports major shortcomings in the Russian army's equipment, including artillery far inferior to Western equivalents, a shortage of 152 mm shells, inadequate communications and obsolete UAVs.
The VChK-OGPU Telegram channel has published 4 pages of a memo signed in Rogozin's name and addressed to Anton Vaino, the head of the Russian Presidential Administration. It tackles "problematic issues of organisation and management of combat operations" in the war in Ukraine.
Rogozin served as deputy prime minister in charge of the defence industry from 2011 to 2018, then as head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos until being fired in July 2022. He has since been trying to make himself relevant again, which is likely the context for the memo.
Rogozin declared himself the head of the "Tsar's Wolves" inspection group of volunteers, with