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Reuters
Reuters
Politics

Putin orders funding boost for Russian weapons production

Russia Vladimir Putin Moscow Ukraine
FILE PHOTO: Russian T-14 Armata tanks drive in Red Square during a military parade on Victory Day, which marks the 77th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, in central Moscow, Russia May 9, 2022. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo

Russia's President Vladimir Putin ordered an increase in funding to boost the country's weapons production in a televised address to the nation on Wednesday in which he ordered a "partial mobilisation" to support Moscow's war effort in Ukraine.

(Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

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