That metric is very tricky and it was mentioned so often in the last 20 years there some started to suspect it was explicitly tailored for that situation, up to the point GDP abbreviation (ВВП) are Putin’s initials. War production was indeed ramped up - I don’t know about regular ammunition and materiel (tho obviously sped up), but there were a lot of news about new drone factories since they’ve got hyped up. It adds %s, but it’s basically government paying itself for soon-to-dispose products it itself uses, not a factory or a business where it takes it’s funds to do so. Not a sustainable model, but who knows how much they are able to put into it.
That metric is very tricky and it was mentioned so often in the last 20 years there some started to suspect it was explicitly tailored for that situation, up to the point GDP abbreviation (ВВП) are Putin’s initials. War production was indeed ramped up - I don’t know about regular ammunition and materiel (tho obviously sped up), but there were a lot of news about new drone factories since they’ve got hyped up. It adds %s, but it’s basically government paying itself for soon-to-dispose products it itself uses, not a factory or a business where it takes it’s funds to do so. Not a sustainable model, but who knows how much they are able to put into it.