A man studies a leaflet given by young woman helping promote Russian Army recruitment in Moscow.
Associated Press – Dec 2, 2023
Russian president Vladimir Putin has ordered the country’s military to increase the number of troops by nearly 170,000 to a total of 1.32 million, as Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine continues into its 22nd month.
Putin’s decree was released by the Kremlin on Friday and took force immediately. It brings the overall number of Russian military personnel to about 2.2 million, including 1.32 million troops.
It is the second such expansion of the army since 2018. The previous boost by 137,000 troops, ordered by Putin in August 2022, put the military’s numbers at about 2 million personnel and about 1.15 million troops.
The defence ministry said the order doesn’t imply any “significant expansion of conscription”, saying in a statement that the increase would happen gradually by recruiting more volunteers. The ministry cited what it called “the special military operation” in Ukraine and the expansion of Nato as the reasons for the increase.
Boosting Russian troops was an appropriate response to “the aggressive activities of the Nato bloc”, the ministry said.
Last December, Russia’s defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, declared that the country needed a force of 1.5 million “to guarantee the fulfilment of tasks to ensure Russia’s security”. He did not say when the military would reach that size.
The Kremlin previously considered the size of its military as sufficient, but the calculus changed after hopes for a quick victory over its neighbour were shattered by fierce Ukrainian resistance.
Amid the continued hostilities, the size of Russian and Ukrainian military casualties remains uncertain. The Russian military has confirmed only just over 6,000 military casualties, but western estimates are much higher. In October, the UK defence ministry said Russia had “likely suffered 150,000 to 190,000 permanent casualties”, a number that included troops that have been killed or permanently wounded.
Russian authorities have undertaken various efforts to give a boost to the army. In August 2022, Putin ordered an increase in the size of the Russian military to 1.15 million starting from 1 January 2023. The following month, he ordered the mobilisation of 300,000 reservists to beef up his forces in Ukraine. That number is counted as part of the military’s current strength.
While Putin said there was no need to round up more, his mobilisation decree is open-ended, allowing the military to call up additional reservists when needed. That decree also banned volunteer soldiers from ending their contracts.
All across Russia’s vast territory, a campaign to entice more men to enlist has been under way for months, with advertisements promise cash bonuses, recruiters making cold calls to eligible men and enlistment offices working with universities and social service agencies to lure students and the unemployed.
Some media reports and rights groups say the Russian authorities also offer amnesty to prisoners in exchange for a tour of military duty.
These efforts come on top of the regular draft, which calls up about 120,000 to 140,000 men twice a year for a one-year tour of compulsory service. The authorities insist that those conscripted for mandatory service are not being deployed to Ukraine.
All Russian men aged 18 to 27 must serve one year in the military, but a large share avoid the draft for health reasons or deferments granted to university students. The share of men who avoid the draft is particularly large in Moscow and other major cities. This year, the authorities raised the upper age limit for mandatory service to 30, starting from 1 January.
This is a rather low estimate, because many other are saying 1.5 million, and 2 million.
This has nothing specifically to do with UKraine. Russia has around 300,000 troops in and around UKraine, who are just training. They are not fighting, although I suspect there is some rotation going on.
Russia has three main concerns.
One, they don’t know who is running Nazi Amerika.
Two, they are concerned about a coalition of the willing entering UKraine. The British Nazis could be first.
Three, they believe the Nazis are planning a much wider war against Russia.
I don’t trust the Nazi buildup in the Eastern Med/Israel, and I don’t trust Erdogan, because the Nazis might, or have already promised him his own empire after Russia is toppled. We know the Turks can head south, but North has more bounty.
If Putin were 40yrs old, then Erdogan would reject a move on Russia, but Putin is 70, maybe 71, so it’s a dog eat dog world. Nazi dogs, at that.
Chandala Lubavitch agent Putin, & Boris Spiegel’s (Jew) ‘World Without Nazism’ government agency isn’t satisfied that enough Whites have been exterminated yet in Ukraine. War must go on to liquidate more Aryans. Welcome to Whiteocide.
It seems the word “Nazi” has been adopted as a euphemism to describe Jew NeoBolsheviks, who are the ones, under the guidance of Rothschild Jewry & their minions, causing all the trouble in the world today…”Nazis” are not the driving force, unless you want to call them ZIONIST Nazis. That would make more sense.
@marco
these are ADL-ZOG disinfo agents infesting these alternative news sites using the word ‘nazi’ for Jews-Zionist-Communists.
jews always claim the holocaust + never
admit their 40-50 million christian victims
of their jewish bolshevikes .
israeli IDF is worst than Nazi SS !
Yep,,, they’re gearing up for war and is probably the reason for Deagles forecast that most Western nations populations will decrease 50-70 percent by 2025.
The US and West are all paper tigers. Russia, China, Iran and North Korea are the real thing. The US can’t even produce enough ammunition to keep the Ukies supplied,,, how in the hell are they gonna supply the West for a major war?
Russia, China and Iran now have Hypersonic missiles in inventory and being produced. The US cannot even get one to fly. According to reports the US can’t even get a replacement engine for the Minute Man missiles to run properly.
The West is a has been. The only thing they have are the nukes which makes a nuke holocaust likely.
@ KEN
but they have TR-3B astra triangle antigravity UFOs
for laser arsoning from space probably in conjunction
with russia . indicating unmolested/allowed over flying
Siberia, arsoning +lasering Methane craters in arctic soil,
arsoning Paradise Calif,Lahaina + other places , nukeing
Tianjin, arsoning fire (unnatural)lines in canadian woods to
enhance Rothschilds climate/CO2 scam + further Klaus Schwabs
great reset (also Rothschilds idea like once communism) .
@Ken yes it appears that they are gearing up for war and the only logical adversary is NATO and their global allies (South Korea, Japan, Australia et al).
If Russia is doing it today, then I speculate that the war will take place at least, in 3 to 5 years time taking place globally.
russian-chinese-asiatic steamroler come over
us like 1945 ! go until Lisbon ! and make uncle
sam pay !