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goes looking to see how hard it is for Russia to replace losses
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-25
Well, that sounds like it's probably not going to be very conducive to receiving further aircraft for multiple reasons.
https://www.scramble.nl/military-news/georgia-announced-the-restart-of-production-of-the-su-25
https://www.blogbeforeflight.net/2021/03/georgia-first-restored-su-25-takes-flight.html
So Georgia is basically doing refurbishment, and it doesn't sound like they're going to be exporting to Russia any time soon.
Apparently Belarus announced early last year that they were wanting to produce it:
https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2023/02/21/belarus-to-make-su-25-attack-aircraft-as-russia-eyes-industry-takeover/
But I don't see any news subsequent to that.