Deputy defence minister Anna Tsivilyova said those coming back from the battlefield had become a ‘driver’ in pushing Russia’s innovation in prosthetics
A Kremlin official has said that the number of soldiers wounded fighting in Ukraine had helped to make Russia a world leader in the manufacture of prosthetic limbs.
Deputy defence minister Anna Tsivilyova, reportedly a relative of President Vladimir Putin, told a conference in Vladivostok that those coming back from the battlefield had become a “driver” in pushing Russia’s innovation in prosthetics.
“We are probably leading in this direction now,” she said at the Eastern Economic Forum.
“It is precisely the participants in the special military operation who have allowed us to reach such a priority flagship level,” she said, using Russia’s term for its invasion of Ukraine.
