RT by @mikenov: BIG | 🇷🇺🇺🇦‼️ A Russian pro-war Telegram channel has issued a furious warning about severe machine-gun shortages in Putin’s army, claiming that Soviet-era weapons stockpiles have been exhausted and replacement equipment is nowhere to be found. The Russian Z-propaganda channel No Pasaran claims that machine guns are no longer available in military supply depots at brigade, corps, army or military district level. It argues that the Soviet-designed PKM is no longer manufactured, while the Russian Pecheneg, despite supposedly remaining in production, has become almost impossible to obtain. Even older Degtyaryov machine guns have reportedly disappeared from storage. The channel

BIG | 🇷🇺🇺🇦‼️ A Russian pro-war Telegram channel has issued a furious warning about severe machine-gun shortages in Putin’s army, claiming that Soviet-era weapons stockpiles have been exhausted and replacement equipment is nowhere to be found.

The Russian Z-propaganda channel No Pasaran claims that machine guns are no longer available in military supply depots at brigade, corps, army or military district level. It argues that the Soviet-designed PKM is no longer manufactured, while the Russian Pecheneg, despite supposedly remaining in production, has become almost impossible to obtain. Even older Degtyaryov machine guns have reportedly disappeared from storage. The channel says Russian troops previously struggled with shortages of ammunition belts, boxes, mounts and sights, but now face a more fundamental problem: a lack of machine guns themselves. Mocking Putin’s past dismissal of Soviet industrial achievements, the author sarcastically asks how the USSR managed to produce weapons and their accessories while modern Russia struggles to supply them, criticizing the AK-12 as an inadequate symbol of today’s arms industry.

🔥 The complaints expose growing frustration among Russian military supporters over the army’s equipment supply system. Machine guns remain essential for infantry fire support, and shortages could directly affect the combat effectiveness of frontline units. While the channel’s claims do not establish that shortages are universal across Russia’s armed forces, they highlight the strain that prolonged warfare and sustained equipment losses can place on military logistics and weapons production.

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