sent weapons to Russia to replenish stockpiles that have been exhausted due to Moscow’s war in Ukraine, United States President Joe Biden said. Russian weapons manufacturing took centre stage on Thursday when former President Dmitry Medvedev read a menacing 1941 telegram from Soviet dictator Josef Stalin aloud to Russia’s arms manufacturing leaders – apparently in a bid to boost domestic arms production. Yevgeny Prigozhin – the founder of the Wagner mercenary force fighting for Russia against Ukraine – has engaged in weeks of a bitter and public feud with Russia’s top army brass of the lack of ammunition delivered to his forces who are leading the fight for the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut