One thing I would assume to work in Russia’s favor... Russia, in all likelihood, does not need to buy or import anything from anybody else to produce artillery shells or rockets. They can just leave the switch in the ON position at the factory...
LOL, Russian rockets and precision-guided artillery shells rely on western components.
The RUSI report, Silicon Lifeline: Western Electronics as the Heart of Russia’s War Machine, says more than 450 foreign-made components have been found in Russian weapons recovered in Ukraine. The report’s authors say Moscow acquired critical technology from companies in the United States, Europe and Asia in the years before the invasion.
“It doesn’t appear that they actually have the ability to reproduce – at least to the same level of sophistication and at scale – a lot of these critical microelectronics. These are the ones that would be absolutely essential for, for example precision-guided munitions which have very sophisticated processing units,” Gary Somerville, a research fellow at RUSI’s Open-Source Intelligence and Analysis Research Group.
That includes Russia’s Iskander 9M727 cruise missile, one of its most advanced weapons. RUSI researchers recovered some missiles in the field inside Ukraine and inspect the microelectronics inside.
They found several Western-sourced components, including digital signal processors, flash memory modules and static RAM modules made by U.S.-based companies including Texas Instruments, Advanced Micro Devices and Cypress Semiconductor, along ethernet cabling that originated from American, Dutch and German companies.
Russia’s Kh-101 cruise missiles, some of which targeted the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, were found to contain 31 foreign components.
The RUSI report, Silicon Lifeline: Western Electronics as the Heart of Russia’s War Machine
https://static.rusi.org/RUSI-Silicon-Lifeline-final-web.pdf