Russian recruitment advert
By Andrew Osborn – Reuters Sept 16, 2024
President Vladimir Putin on Monday ordered the regular size of the Russian army to be increased by 180,000 troops to 1.5 million active servicemen in a move that would make it the second largest in the world after China’s.
In a decree published on the Kremlin’s website, Putin ordered the overall size of the armed forces to be increased to 2.38 million people, of which he said 1.5 million should be active servicemen.
According to data from the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), a leading military think tank, such an increase would see Russia leapfrog the United States and India in terms of the number of active combat soldiers it has at its disposal and be second only to China in size. The IISS said Beijing has just over 2 million active duty service personnel.
The move, the third time Putin has expanded the army’s ranks since sending his military into Ukraine in February 2022, comes as Russian forces push forward in eastern Ukraine on parts of a vast 1,000 km (627-mile) frontline and try to eject Ukrainian forces from Russia’s Kursk region.
Although Russia has a population more than three times larger than Ukraine’s and has been successfully recruiting volunteers on lucrative contracts to fight in Ukraine, it has – like Kyiv’s forces – been sustaining heavy battlefield losses, and there is no sign of the war ending anytime soon.
Both sides say the exact size of their losses is a military secret.
Andrei Kartapolov, chairman of Russia’s lower house of parliament’s defence committee, said the increase in active troop numbers was part of a plan to overhaul the armed forces and gradually increase their size to match what he described as the current international situation and the behaviour of “our former foreign partners.”
“For example, we now need to form new structures and military units to ensure security in the north-west (of Russia) since Finland, with which we border, has joined the NATO bloc,” Kartapolov told Parlamentskaya Gazeta, the Russian parliament’s in-house newspaper.
“And in order to carry out this process, we need to increase the number of troops.”
THIRD INCREASE SINCE 2022
Putin since 2022 had previously ordered two official increases in the number of combat troops – by 137,000 and 170,000 respectively.
In addition, Russia mobilised over 300,000 soldiers in September and October 2022 in an exercise which prompted tens of thousands of draft-age men to flee the country.
The Kremlin has said that no new mobilisation is planned for now, however, and that the idea is to continue to rely on volunteers signing up to fight in Ukraine.
Dara Massicot, an expert in the Russian military at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace think tank, questioned whether Moscow was ready to foot the bill for the increase in active servicemen.
“There are ways to staff a standing 1.5 million force but the Kremlin will not like them if they are truly grappling with what that requires,” Massicot wrote on X.
“Are they really able to boost the defense budget to sustain procurement AND this requirement?”
Massicot, who has released a report on Russia’s drive to regenerate its army, said Moscow could take the unpopular and difficult decision of expanding the draft size or change the law to allow more women to work in the military to reach such a goal.
“Look for signs that this is a real initiative to recruit and expand, and not a kind of show to intimidate others. The current volunteer method is working but has strains. This (the expansion) means more expense/strain,” she said.
How will these toy soldiers be equipped?there is no stock of basic military gear.all defense budgets have been stolen over the decades,fake equipment and empty crates were stocked to hide this thievery. The jewdeo oligarchs spent more on their fleet of yachts,than the russkie state invested in its decrepit navy,in decades. You could see ivans in ukrain, on patrol ,armed with ww1 nagant mosin sniper rifles ? same with boots and camo-wear,soldiers had to buy these for themselves
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Have y’all forgotten the cold war?the russkies, for decades ,powered an ‘arc of tension’.they were about to run over the ‘free world’ any moment with their ‘wunderwaffe’.their army of millions was standing behind the berlin wall , waiting for the communist call .they were about to push the button for nukular holocost ……..then all of a sudden the jew-ssr was disbanded, without ever firing one shot at the capitalist , decadent west. Its corpse was feasted upon by the beaked joos,as vultures do on a carcass.bye bye ivan you are full of shit,from gulping all that borsht.
This increase isn’t just about putting rams and ewes on the front lines, wherever they may be, but this is about have some sort of sizable, disciplined contingent, to organise the WW3 nuclear aftermath.
To set this in context, there are well over 600 Privy Councillors. Most are just sleepers, just in case there’s a sizable population wipe out.
In a major crisis, some will die, many others will abandon their duties, but some with turn up. They have a good idea how this breaks down. So you need numbers.
In a nuclear war, Putin would rather his best rams & ewes were in bunkers.
Hmmm …? We have now a lot of US and Russian hype for a WWIII out of a relatively minor land dispute in the Ukraine.
“Up to 34 million soldiers served in the Red Army during World War II, 8 million of which were non-Slavic minorities. Officially, the Red Army lost 6,329,600 killed in action (KIA), 555,400 deaths by disease and 4,559,000 missing in action (MIA) (mostly captured).”
Russia is going to do the job this time with 1.5 million troops – over the Ukraine? No. It will have to simply nuke the US to live in peace. Right? Or are we not being gaslighted by the globalists who need such a mother of crises to bring out their one-world government peace keepers and the powers putting their plutonium to peaceful uses to make us “safe”? Remember that Putin and the Kremlin are part of the same New World Order cabal as the US deep state, China, the Vatican, and the Rothschild dynasty and despite the crimes of their Covid war against humanity they have not skipped a beat.
Fleming wrote the James Bond books as a reminder that one man can be an Army if he is well trained and equipped, and some VC winners were of that type, but today’s real Armies are just the billions of mediocrities whose dead weight suffices to stifle the Great
“Putin orders Russian army” …this jewish midget should be ordering the ministry of defense,as they are the boss of the army.the ministry of defense is in charge of budgets and the assignment thereof to the army outfits.this idiot does not even know how the chain of command worx.