Pjotr Sauer – The Guardian Aug 25, 2022
Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to increase the size of Russia’s armed forces from 1.9 million to 2.04 million, as the war in Ukraine enters its seventh month with no signs of abating.
The Russian president’s decree appears to point to the country’s aim to replenish its military, which has suffered heavy losses in Ukraine and failed to achieve its objective to capture the capital, Kyiv.
(Contrary to what the Guardian claims, there is absolutely NO evidence that Russia failed to capture Kiev, or as the Guardian spells it Kyiv. Beyond making a few modest armed reconnaissance forays on roads leading to Ukraine’s capital, Russia has concentrated its efforts on securing eastern Ukraine and the southern coastal regions.
The claim that Russia “failed to capture” Ukraine’s capital was probably suggested by Western intelligence to help create the impression that Russia’s military was flawed and failing. Thereby lulling the Western public into complaceny and preparing them psychologically for war with Russia. Ed.)
The order, which will come into effect on 1 January, includes a 137,000 rise in the number of combat personnel to 1.15 million.
It marks a noticeable increase in army personnel since the last time Russia expanded the size of its military in 2017, when it added 13,698 military personnel and 5,357 non-combatants.
Russia does not publicly disclose how many casualties it has suffered in Ukraine, but in May the UK Ministry of Defence said Moscow had lost as much as a third of its ground combat strength since the start of the war.
The CIA director, William Burns, last month said an estimated 15,000 Russian servicemen had died in Ukraine, “and maybe three times that wounded”.
Moscow, which has so far opted against declaring a general mobilisation, has recently intensified its efforts to recruit new soldiers, through what some experts have referred to as “covert mobilisation”.
Regions across Russia have started to form volunteer battalions, offering lucrative short-term contracts to men aged between 18 and 60. Western intelligence has also said private military companies, including the Wagner group, are being used to reinforce Russia’s frontline forces as the Kremlin faces troop shortages.
Thursday’s decree did not specify how the increase in headcount was to be conducted but ordered the government to assign the appropriate budget to the military.
Pavel Luzin, a Russian military expert, said Moscow would struggle to increase the number of soldiers, saying “this decree is contrary to the objective reality on the ground”.
Putin’s order comes after a senior Russian diplomat this week told the Financial Times that Moscow sees no possibility of a diplomatic solution to end the war in Ukraine and expects a long conflict.
Ukraine has similarly ruled out peace talks, with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy vowing to recapture lost territory in the country’s east and south.

Another fake news media article that’s full of bullshit.
Russia needs to expend its military because NATO is expanding and Eastwards.
A Russian minister explained that progress was modest, because the SMO tries to avoid civilian casualty’s, & losses to its own military. Yesterday 200 Nazis were killed by one Russian missile. lol All the good times.
Meanwhile, Boris Johnson is spewing lies, and spreading hate. Funny how a British PM can spew hate speech wrapped up in barefaced lies.
As I’ve said in the past. I now hold the view that Russia wants a slow burn. The Russians want a rigorous deNazification of UKraine, & if the Nazi NWO wants to pour resources into UKraine, so it can be swiftly destroyed, then all the better.
If take the view that a nuclear war can be avoided, than at some point, even if decades away, the NWO will either collapse, or they will accept Russian and Chinese terms.
The US position on Taiwan is a joke, given that China can seal off Taiwan, and to be fank, the US will look even more pathetic than it does in UKraine. Mind you, there’s a suggestion that the US navy with sink commercial shipping which is moving Chinese goods or raw materials. This isn’t like WW2 when ships crossed the North Atlantic carrying armes. We’re talking about the US sinking ships often owned by none Chinese interests, and of course, they idea is to simply cease all trade, because there won’t be any insurance. The reason why we’re hearing such chat, it that Amerika is virtually powerless to stop China retaking Taiwan by force. And keep in mind that many, many chips are made in Taiwan.
@Carl I’m all for immigration Jones-
You will be happy to know that although your hero Putin has no nukes that he can use against the EBIL EBIL NAAAZZZEEES and he makes no decision without the permission of his rabbi Lazar, he does indeed have an incredibly potent weapon to use against them “Nazis”. They are the dreaded IMCEPs and he has billions of them ready to strike against and wipe out forever more, “Nazis” aka white people who object to the nations they carved out of wilderness being turned into stinking multicultural toilet bowls. Once they enter a nations atmosphere, you can kiss that civilization goodbye. It’s gone forever. Incoming!
He is employing these IMCEPs (Intercontinental Multiple Entry Colored Peoples) against white Russians and his buddy Zelensky was and is doing the same to white Ukrainians. When things got hot during the war in Ukraine more than twenty thousand IMCEPs from India decided to up sticks and high turban it back to India or move to Poland and Germany. In fact Russia was gracious enough to help evacuate these weaponized Intercontinental Multiple Re-entry Pajeets and they are flooding into Russia like never before. To encourage the addition of this arsenal to the new multicultural Russian Armed Forces, they are being offered affirmative action advancement, free housing, free education, medical insurance, job opportunity, job security, pensions on retirement and of course the ethereal pleasure of leaving the sh*t hole country India and living around white people. They also create chain migration for their extended brown family and if a white Russian so much as looks at them sideways, Putin will send the cops to bash them up. Just like he does whenever there is a flareup of Russian nationalism or a march against open borders. Russian poverty? They can drink themselves to death for all he cares
What were 22,000 Indians doing in Kiev, Ukraine along with countless Africans and Muslims? You, Carl, would never ask that question, but here it is: They were running like hell when the fighting started and laughing at the idea that they would fight for Ukraine. But the fist of Chabad is so far up Putin’s you-know-what that he has to do his part to create a UN force to use against the Russian people. Whether he does it with the same enthusiasm of a Trudeau, Merkel or Biden is irrelevant at this point. BTW, I skip most of your comments, “thicko sheeple, thicko sheeple, thicko sheeple, Putin’s nukes…” but do you still believe in Mars landers, secret space programs or am I confusing you with Yukon Jack and his space telescopes around the moon and inter-galactic space aliens that come down the pike every 3600 years? I know that he despises Christians as much as the bot Nico X and his pervert hero Alister but his comments are mercifully less numerous.
Don’t be shy about it, Putin has to pretend there were “Nazi” gas chambers and the USSR landed a contraption on Venus around 1969. There’s the baby right there, on Venus:
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse4.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.lou4jreb8Fur1OAomHZ_qQHaEK%26pid%3DApi&f=1
Why does the administrators of this website always ignore the fact that Vladimir Putin is a member of the World Economic Forums Young Global Leader initiative? Claiming he’s broken away from the clan, like a hero, is delusional.
I’ve been a long time reader, however, it seems impossible to find out who actually runs this website…. Surprisingly pro Russia.
Be careful what you believe everyone. If you think you’d be better off living in Russia, move there and see what you think.
I hope Vlad has had the Iskander and other precision missile manufacturing facilities going at warp speed.
Warming up the decision making centers behind the Satanic Jew nightmare in Ukraine should be great fun.
They are recruiting only non-whites. They must also be LBGTQ+. Putin is determined to get the balance of his armed forces right. Once complete, Russia will be unstoppable.
When I was in the USAF we were told the women in China’s armed forces was 350 million. That is greater than the USA population.
Years later I had a dream of running through the woods in North Idaho trying to evade the advancing Chinese army, I met a female chinese officer and fell in love with her. Weird dream that I think is based on irrational fears.
I think more realistically that as the US hegemon receeds (which is being engineered on purpose by the current Zionists in power) that Guam will fall as the Chinese expand eastward into the Pacific. I think in the near future (maybe 10-20 years from now, as the decline accelerates) China will take Guam and the USA will hold Hawaii as the front line.
Do you all remember when Trump punked Xi in 2017? Xi was at Mar Largo have a big piece of “beautiful chocolate cake” and Trump tells him that his generals just launched a volley of 39 cruise missiles.
Xi then asks “at who?”.
https://ibb.co/HpSpv1K
Amerika is run by idiots and China is disciplined and on the ascension.
Of course, since the plan of Antifa Russia is to exterminate as many Aryan Ukrainians as possible they must increase the size of their anti-white Slavic-Mongol army–for Putins & Boris Siegels ‘World Without Nazism’ war must go on…
@Bob Smith…Hey if you want to believe in some Rabbi Messiah & Jewish created Christian religion that teaches ‘Salvation is from the Jews’ (John 4:22) that’s your stupidity/lunacy…
Can’t nobody see this is another scripted war created by zionists and Jewish banksters for many reasons and one of them is to kill again as many ‘gentiles’, especially white people, as possible.
@Jerome…yeah I’ve been saying this since the war started 6 months ago that’s it a ‘war against whites’..
If you dont like whats put on this site then leave,simple.
If you think Putin is behind the destruction of the white race then you’ve been asleep for your whole life, the people destroying our race are the whites themselves. Mass immigration,usury and now the poisoned jab as for Ukraine its a jewish state and its enforcers are a bunch of dimwits who’ve sold their souls for a few shekels and cookies. I’ve no more time for these imbeciles than i have for the imbeciles who clapped to the sky every thursday night.
Off topic but seriously, who the fu** is Richard S.
I mean the guy could be dead from covid it’s been so long..
Jeeez
Yukon Jack: how will Hawaii stay solvent with US collapse? Hawaii is a very expensive place to live, and with US inflation rising, Hawaii is going to become a back water.
I still don’t think sheeple realise just how big a slide the US standard of living is going to take.
Schwab: “Vee vill pretend ze war, and zen blame ze higher energie prizes on zis, gaining ze zupport from zee sheep, and so vee vill disposses evry sing vrom zem. Zey vill bee begging for our zolution of ze cbdc’s and vill do anysing to get food and shelter. My masters von ze red shield vill be verry heppy wiz me”.
I don’t mind a long-term duel between the main White country and these mixed-Race atheist faggot Holohoax ones. Since Feb 2022 I have not had to change sides
As someone (perhaps Voltaire) has said, common sense is not so common. Actually it is a great rarity and this is the main reason for the fall of the Western civilization, the jews are just the catalyst. And common sense disappeared with the demise of Christianity- the more materialistic and secular the populace becomes the dumber it gets. People got used to believe in all lkind of jewish phantasms like the fantastic viruses because they lost their faith in God. When people expel God from their lives the Devil comes in. This is inevitable as Christianity is the only real, viable and efficient defence against the jews and their satanism (which is known by many names- judaism, bolshevism, marxism, communism, globalism). It is not surprising that after every jewish revolution the jews attack Christianity first, killing clergy and razing churches and monasteries. The jewry knows who their enemy is while mankind has lost this knowledge and as a consequence it will most likely perish.
Two jewish world wars were not enough for mankind to get it that all wars are jewish bankers’ wars used to externinate as many goyim as possible and a third one is fast approaching because mankind no longer can see its mortal enemy, the jewry, the destroyers of civilizations, the evil, murderous, genocidal satanic tribe.
Reading of the comments here is a depressing and discouraging experience- I can clearly see that most of the commenters with few exceptions (Bob Smith, Jerome) are living in a jewish parallel reality, in a jewish cloud cuckoo land where jewish villains like Hitler and Putin are viewed as saviours (“We always give the public their heroes, we give the heroes to every faction…” Albert Pike). It is devastating that even in 2022 after 2 years of global jewish scamdemic people fail to see that all governments are jewish occupational governments, that all politics is jewish puppet show for the dumb masses who continue to vote and blindly and mindlessly obey their jewish mastets who drive them again to the slaughterhouse.
People in this jewish hell of a world are so totally and hopelessly blinded by jewish deceptions and lies that no awakening seems possible in the foreseeable future. Mankind seems absilutely unsalvageable.
Only a higher, external force can put an end to the jewish reign of terror, mankind is hypnotized by the serpent, it is willingly contributing to its own demise, it is mindlessly digging its own grave, so strong is the jewish magic of substituting reality for illusions.
“You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and he stood not in the truth; because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.” – John 8:44
“Jews are the punishment for our sins.” – Corneliu Zelea Codreanu