December 23, 2022 Russia-Ukraine news - CNN

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with defence manufacture officials successful Tula, Russia, connected December 23. (Sputnik/Russian Presidential Press Office/Kremlin/Reuters)

Russian President Vladimir Putin is gathering connected Friday with defence manufacture officials gathered from crossed the state successful the metropolis of Tula to sermon "problems" related to the proviso of weapons to the Russian military, and however to amended deliveries and the weapons' characteristics. 

"The astir important, cardinal task for the military-industrial analyzable endeavor is to proviso everything indispensable to the front-line units — weapons, instrumentality and munition — of the indispensable measurement and the required prime successful the fastest way," Putin said astatine the commencement of the meeting, which helium said is taking spot successful the "city of guns." There is simply a ample arms works successful the city.

"A cardinal task successful this is to acceptable up a feedback loop betwixt the military-industrial analyzable and the units progressive successful the special subject operation," helium said, utilizing his word for the penetration of Ukraine.  

"Your specialists spell to the frontline helping to repair rapidly the damaged instrumentality and making it operational again, to trial however it works successful combat and marque changes to the prototypes to amended their characteristics," helium said. 

Putin meets with enactment of subject concern analyzable enterprises successful Tula, Russia, connected Friday. (Sputnik/Russian Presidential Press Office/Kremlin/Reuters)

Some context: There person been reports of basic instrumentality shortages for Russian troops since the opening of the country's penetration of Ukraine. Russian citizens are present crowdfunding to equip soldiers deployed to Ukraine as wintertime closes successful connected the battlefield.

In the Chuvashia region, wherever immoderate of the mobilized staged protests successful the fall, Telegram channels said that families had gone into indebtedness buying equipment. And successful Tambov, successful cardinal Russia, 8th people schoolchildren besides raised wealth for socks for the troops.

While galore appeals absorption connected preventing hypothermia among soldiers warring without capable covering and structure successful sub-zero temperatures, immoderate besides effort to root thermal imagery devices, two-way radios, assemblage armor and adjacent drones.