Last chance saloon. Mired in corruption and increasingly unable to meet procurement contracts due to a lack of components, Russia’s defence manufacturers find themselves in a precarious position — Novaya Gazeta Europe
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By pouring record sums of money into the sector, moving to round-the-clock production and threatening management with prison terms for failure to deliver on contracts, the Russian government is trying to drain whatever it still can from the country’s depleted military-industrial complex.

Putin first proposed prison sentences for those failing to fulfil defence orders back in 2017, though according to Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service, the number of procurement orders not being met on time has been steadily growing since 2014.

Since the start of the war, Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service has fined 419 employees in armaments factories for failing to deliver contracted goods. The actual number of violations is likely to be far higher, however, as figures were calculated using the number of appeals made to the service by those it had fined. According to the new legislation, repeat offenders could face criminal prosecution and jail sentences of up to 10 years.