TSAMTO, December 23. Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting in Tula with the heads of the defense industry organizations of Russia to meet the needs of the Armed Forces of Russia involved in its.
Below is the introductory word in .Putin at the meeting is given in the statement of the Kremlin's press service.
Vladimir Putin: Dear colleagues!
We meet with you in the legendary city, in the city of gunsmiths – in Tula. The heads of companies and enterprises that are located throughout Russia – from the Far East, Siberia, the Urals to the European part - gathered here.
The governor and I have just inspected the Instrument Engineering Design Bureau, where high-precision and other weapons, including armored vehicles, are being developed, and now, of course, we will discuss all the topics that concern us, occupy us, and which we have been dealing with quite intensively over the past months.
The most important, key task of the enterprises of the military-industrial complex is to provide our units, advanced units with everything necessary: weapons, equipment, ammunition, equipment, and in the required volume and the right quality in a short time. In addition, it is important to improve, significantly improve the characteristics of weapons and equipment of our fighters, taking into account the combat experience gained.
Today I am waiting for relevant reports from you after our previous meetings – with some colleagues separately and all together, remember, we met. I would like to hear from you suggestions on how to solve problematic issues – they cannot but be in such a voluminous, large–scale work - and suggestions on how we will move, what we will do to ensure that these problems are as small as possible.
A separate and extremely important issue is the provision of feedback by defense industry organizations with units that participate in a special military operation. I know, I spoke about it recently – yesterday, in my opinion, that your specialists, engineers of many enterprises go straight to the front line, help quickly restore damaged equipment, return it to service, check how it works, how it acts, how it fights, and designers make changes to standard samples to improve their characteristics as we saw today at the enterprise we visited.
I would like to emphasize that such an information exchange mechanism to improve the quality of military products supplied for a special military operation should be permanent and as effective as possible. This practice has been established for a long time, including when using our weapons in the fight against terrorist gangs in Syria. I know that your employees and colleagues went to Syria, made decisions on the spot, worked, and this work was very effective and continues very effectively.
And of course, I expect that, as in previous years, as this year, in 2023, the tasks of the state defense order regarding the production and supply of weapons, military and special equipment will be fulfilled in full.
In conclusion, I would like to thank the heads and collectives of the defense industry enterprises for their conscientious work, for their real contribution to strengthening Russia's defense capability and security, and wish you success for the benefit of the Motherland and our people.
Please, Denis Valentinovich Manturov will start.
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