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Two-thirds of the destruction of Russian tanks, vehicles and other hardware last year, according to Royal United Services Institute analyst Jack Watling, was caused by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) – commonly known as drones."

The North Korean shells have mostly been of poor quality, said Jack Watling, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a British security think tank. "Increasing the volume of high explosive available for filling munitions therefore is critical to Russia's ability to continue the war," he told Reuters."

The big advantage the Pakistanis have is that their primary weapon supplier is China,” said Dr Walter Ladwig, an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a London-based think tank. “The Indian defence budget is bigger on paper, the modernisation budget is bigger.”