The article is quite misinformed, for example:
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Russia can’t even build large engines for warships
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The production for the powerplants has been localised, with LRIP engines being completed since last year.
However that said Russian Navy is scaling down naturally in many ways down to the size of a normal European Navy in terms of combat ships. You can see it for example in the SSN/SSGN production, with Yasen-M construction rates and production run being about the same as that of Astute class.