Due to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s economy has suffered losses of over 400 billion dollars due to sanctions. The military apparatus of the aggressor state has become so impoverished that it is now seeking weapons from other dictatorial regimes, such as North Korea, states James Kariuki, the permanent representative of the United Kingdom at the United Nations. He reminded that Russia has lost more than half of the territories it seized since February 2022 and a fifth of its Black Sea Fleet. “Now Russia’s defence industry strips down fridges for parts. It orders its weapons from…