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The program of import substitution was launched in Russia in 2014 after Western nations stopped selling important parts and other equipment to Russia over its alleged involvement in the
Ukrainian crisis. President Vladimir Putin then ordered the country's defense industry to speed up the development and production of a number of vitally important “units and parts,”
while still allowing them to look for alternative Western suppliers. Shortly before the famous showcase of Russia’s top-of-the-line tanks and armored vehicles based on the Armata and
Kurganets platforms during last year’s Victory Day Parade on Red Square, the deputy head of the Military-Industrial Commission, Oleg Bochkarev, said that they were 100-percent developed and
built in Russia. “We are already working on hardware components needed for mass production of [the next generation of tanks and armored vehicles],” he said early last year.
