Russian side criticizes: a huge lie! Speech | Financial Times | Russia
According to the report of Rossiyskaya Gazeta on July 6, the Financial Times quoted Tony Radakin, the chief of the British defense staff, as saying at the parliamentary hearing that "the Russian army has lost nearly half of its combat effectiveness." Not only that, Radakin also claimed that the Russian army fired 10 million shells last year, but that Russia could only produce 1 million shells a year. He said, "Russia lost 2500 tanks, and can only produce a maximum of 200 tanks per year."
The report stated that the Russian Ministry of Defense strongly refuted and mocked these rumors. The Russian Ministry of Defense stated, "The assessment of Russian armored vehicle losses and the statement that the Russian military has lost 'half of its combat effectiveness' reported by the Financial Times by Radakin is a huge lie and confusing. The background of all this is that even other British military officials, including Defense Minister Ben Wallace, have complained that their own weapons reserves have been emptied and hundreds of pieces of equipment sent to Ukraine for' counterattack 'have been completely destroyed. These equipment were' accidentally 'burned, which barely allowed them to come into contact with the Russian military, which seems to have' lost its combat effectiveness'."
According to reports, the logic and purpose behind Radakin's statement in the UK Parliament is obvious, which is to extract funds from insufficient budgets to purchase new weapons for the military as a replacement for the "broken weapons" sent to Ukraine.
