Russia has depleted its once-vast stockpiles of Soviet-era weaponry during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, with the flow of goods from military storage facilities to the front-line now back down to pre-2022 levels.
Shipments starting in the vicinity of Russia’s principal storage fields are on track to fall from a peak of 242,000 tonnes in 2022 to 119,000 tonnes in 2025, according to an analysis of logistics data by the Kyiv School of Economics Institute.
Pavlo Shkurenko, an analyst at the KSE Institute, said that the drop suggested supplies were depleted: “Russia is now sending less materiel for refurbishment and repair than we know the repair stations can handle. The better quality and easily-restored equipment would have been the first to be moved.”