MOSCOW. April 6 (Interfax) - Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has inspected the implementation of the state defense order at defense industry enterprises which manufacture munitions in the Nizhny Novgorod region, including artillery and air-launched munitions, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday.
"Representatives of the enterprises' management boards have reported to Shoigu that output of the full range of their products has been increased several times over in the past few months in order to provide the troops with ammunition," the ministry said.
Shoigu inspected facilities manufacturing modern weapons, it said.
"A program for expanding production capacity to manufacture weapons, in order to meet the needs of Russian forces performing special military operation duties, is currently being successfully implemented," the ministry said.
"Sergei Shoigu held a working meeting with the executives of enterprises and specialized military control bodies, where he attached particular significance to maintaining the schedule of implementing the state defense order," it said.
The Defense Ministry reported on April 1 that Shoigu held a conference at the headquarters of the Russian combined forces involved in the special military operation in Ukraine.
"By expanding production capacities and increasing labor productivity, the number of products released by them to be supplied to our forces has considerably increased. This includes both conventional and precision-guided weapons. All this makes it possible to carry out the tasks set by the supreme commander-in-chief in accordance with the plan of the special military operation," Shoigu said at the meeting.
The Defense Ministry said earlier that Shoigu had inspected the implementation of the state defense order at defense industry enterprises in the Moscow region and in the Chelyabinsk and Kirov regions.