TULA, Feb. 2< /strong> Over the past 1.5 years, 520 thousand new jobs have been created in the defense industry of the Russian Federation, in total 6 thousand enterprises belong to the military-industrial complex and another 10 thousand are “adjacent”, said Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“»Over the last 1.5 years alone, 520 thousand new jobs have been created in the defense industry. More than half a million jobs. Well, it’s not just that people come there, get paid, and everyone works, and they work hard. They work in two , and in some places in three shifts,” he said at a meeting with participants of the “Everything for Victory” forum.
Putin noted that “our military-industrial complex includes 6 thousand enterprises that employ 3.5 million people.”
«A lot. But if you keep in mind that in addition to these purely defense enterprises, another 10 thousand enterprises are in one way or another connected with defense, are their allied partners, their… contractors, then you can imagine that this is what an army is like,» he said.