Russia asks countries among its arms customers to return weapons sold to them: Report

Russia is trying to get back some of the military equipment and weapons it exported to countries such as Pakistan, Egypt, Belarus and Brazil, in an effort to replenish the huge stocks of arms it has exhausted in the war on Ukraine, the Wall Street Journal reported.

 

Russian officials visiting Cairo last April asked Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to give back more than a hundred engines from Russian helicopters that Moscow needed for Ukraine, WSJ reported citing three sources with knowledge of the incident. They said Sisi agreed and deliveries of approximately 150 engines are likely to start next month.