Russia cannot mass-produce tanks and artillery, but only repair and modernize them - expert Kovalenko

He shared the statement on Espreso TV. Kovalenko said that there can be no deadlock in Russia's war in Ukraine, because every day the Ukrainian Defence Forces are depleting Russian enemy until it can restore its 200-300 tanks per month, which it has had in its warehouses since the Soviet era.

"There can be no deadlock, that's the point, it cannot exist a priori. Why?" - Because every day, when Ukrainian forces are even on the defensive, not on the offensive, the enemy is exhausted. We see that the military-industrial complex of the Russian Federation has certain limitations, does it have the ability to produce new missiles? - Yes, it does, because it has this potential. Does it have the capacity to produce 200-300 new tanks every month? - No, it doesn't. This is the first point. They do not have large-scale serial production of tanks," Kovalenko said.

According to him, Russia can restore, repair, and modernize its tanks, but not manufacture them from scratch. The situation is the same with artillery.

"Russia has the ability to restore the Soviet potential, so every day of war and the destruction of Russian equipment is an impact on Russia, it is the exhaustion of Russia. There will come a time when Russia will be able to rely solely on its own production, just like with missiles, as we are seeing now. Do we see 70-80 missile launches every day? No, not every day. This happens once every month and a half, if we are talking about 2023, then since September, there has been a three-month pause between large-scale missile strikes. Because they are producing and accumulating, the same will happen at some point with the equipment," explained the military and political observer of the Information Resistance group.