My guess is that they never fully replenished their stocks from fighting in Syria. They expected this war to go very quickly and so didn’t think that would be a problem. Now that it has gone on for longer than anticipated, they realize they’re running out of some very important crap.
I didn’t know the Chinese made Vodka.
Every trillion Xi puts into rebuilding and modernizing the Russian forces will be matched by US borrowed trillions. The new arms race has started.