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[Lexikos]

Does the character "w" actually exist on the Russian keyboard layout? If so, can you produce "W" by combining Shift with "w"? Send and related commands work via the target window's keyboard layout. If the character does not exist on that layout, modifying it with a Shift keystroke will have no effect, since it is the keyboard layout that defines what the modified character would be. Therefore, if the answer to either of the previous two questions is "no", "+w" will never produce "W" on the Russian layout (and this is by design, not a bug).

[Deo]

not exactly
it just trying to find required character in you current keyboard layout
W does not exist in russian layout, and thus it wont work
hotkey commands will not work either
it depends not on your currently selected language, but exactly on your default layout - you must have it english in order it could work

OR
you need to use virtual key codes always

here is a workaround i used to make any hotkeys working on any language

KeyboardLayoutList()
{
	hkl_num := 20
	VarSetCapacity(hHkls,hkl_num*A_PtrSize,0)
	num := DllCall("GetKeyboardLayoutList","Uint",hkl_num,"Ptr",&hHkls)
	hkl_list := Array()
	loop,% num
		hkl_list.Insert(NumGet(hHkls,(A_index-1)*A_PtrSize,"UPtr"))
	hHkls =
	return hkl_list
}

GetVKList( letter )
{
	SetFormat, Integer, Hex
	vk_list := Array()
	for i, hkl in KeyboardLayoutList()
	{
		retVK := DllCall("VkKeyScanExW","UShort",Asc(letter),"Ptr",hkl,"Short")
		if (retVK = -1)
			continue
		vk := retVK & 0xFF
		StringTrimLeft,vk,vk,2
		if !instr(_list,"|" vk "|")
		{
			_list .= "|" vk "|"
			vk_list.insert(vk)
		}
	}
	SetFormat, Integer, D
	return vk_list
}

GetVKList() returns arrays of all vk acceptable for your current layouts. Most probably it will have only one, though
here is a simple solution for your case:

SendInput,% "+{vk" GetVKList("W")[1] "}"