the Kremlin detailing President Vladimir Putin’s visit to the All‑Russia People’s Front (ONF) military hardware exhibition in Moscow

 

 

📅 Event Overview

 

Date & Location: July 6, 2025, at the “Russia” National Centre exhibition space in Moscow. The exhibition, organized by the All‑Russia People’s Front, highlights three years of civilian efforts to support Russia’s Special Military Operation (SVO) through equipment, technology, and humanitarian aid .

 

🕴️ Putin’s Participation

 

Exhibition tour: President Putin walked through multiple stands demonstrating volunteer-developed equipment, including light military vehicles, drones, electronic-warfare systems, field communications gear, power supplies, and portable rescue rations.

 

Award ceremony: He attended a ceremony honoring volunteers, donors, and participants who contributed to supporting service members, their families, and civilians in combat zones .

 

 

🏗️ Exhibition Highlights

 

Volunteer-engineered hardware: Showcasing front-line innovations like small all-terrain buggies, modified “Bukhanka” vans, portable UAVs, thermal imaging gear, radios, generators, drones, and compact emergency ration packs.

 

Humanitarian scale: The initiative mobilized public donations exceeding 54 billion rubles, facilitating the delivery of over 14,000 vehicles and support systems. Volunteer-made drones are credited with destroying nearly $2 billion in enemy assets .

 

🎙️ Putin’s Remarks

 

Putin praised the volunteer effort’s scale and quality:

 

> “Volunteer brotherhoods have formed in all regions… sewing battalions, ‘Kulibin’ clubs assembling drones and EW systems… societal support is truly nationwide” .

 

He also addressed transparency:

 

> “Let Western taxpayers hear these figures and think about where their governments spend their people’s money” .

 

🕊️ Memorial Tribute

 

Putin paid tribute to Rear Admiral Mikhail Gudkov, a deputy Navy commander killed on July 2. Posthumous honors include the Golden Star medal, and memorials—such as a street in Donetsk and a naval academy branch in Mariupol—will bear his name .

 

🧭 Strategic Significance

 

Domestic message: The exhibition underscores a narrative of mass mobilization involving grassroots innovation, volunteerism, and civilian participation in technical and humanitarian fronts.

 

International signaling: Putin’s remarks and shared data aim to highlight Russian operational effectiveness and contrast it with Western military expenditure.