Putin expands the army by 130,000
As announced by the TASS , the president of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, with his decree, has increased the number of military personnel of the armed forces of the Russian Federation by 137 thousand people. The document was published on Thursday on the official legal information portal , it comes into force on January 1, 2023.
The number of members of the Russian armies since the beginning of next year is fixed at the level of 2 million 39 thousand 758 people, of which 1 million 150 thousand 628 are military.
In the previous decree on the subject, declared invalid, this figure was 1 million 902 thousand 758 units, of which 1 million 13 thousand 628 people – military personnel. So the increase seems to affect more civilian personnel in the service of the army.
At the same time, the Russian military department does not plan to completely abandon the draft. According to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, at the end of 2015, the number of contract servicemen in the Russian armed forces reached 352,000, surpassing for the first time the number of soldiers and sailors serving in the military of 297,000. In addition, there were about 270 thousand officers, midshipmen and midshipmen in the troops. The draft activity plan of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation for 2019-2025 provides for an increase in the number of contract soldiers by the end of 2025 to 475.6 thousand people.
Obviously, the strengthening of the armed forces is related to the international tensions resulting from the invasion of Ukraine.
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