Why do you blame Russians? She is an Ukrainian working for the western countries for all her life. What do you expect her to say anything about China or Russia? Here is the background check of the author Maria Shagina.
I quote:
We can expect some anti-Russian propaganda from Ukrainians (and not just from Ukrainians). She claimed that "
After 7 years of import substitution, dependency on foreign critical system components and machine tools remains high." (Emphasis added.) Note the seven years.
Then she added "In 2017, Western countries still provided 57% of Russian machine tool imports (based on import value)." So the data she cited was for only
three years of import substitution. Is it so surprising that import substitution for machine tools would take longer than three years? What is the situation in Russia today?
So the alleged doctor was being quite deceptive.