{"id":295053,"date":"2024-09-18T07:00:08","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T07:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=295053"},"modified":"2024-09-19T05:19:23","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T05:19:23","slug":"kremlin-explains-russian-army-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=295053","title":{"rendered":"Kremlin explains Russian army expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>RT.com \u2013 Sept 17, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Russia\u2019s decision to expand its military was taken due to the current hostile environment, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, President Vladimir Putin signed a decree to boost the number of personnel in the armed forces to almost 2.4 million, including 1.5 million service members.<\/p>\n<p>The move was motivated <em>\u201cby the number of threats that exist for our country alongside our borders,\u201d<\/em> Peskov explained on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The environment is <em>\u201cextremely hostile\u201d<\/em> for Russia in the West and <em>\u201cunstable\u201d<\/em> in the East, a situation that <em>\u201crequires appropriate measures,\u201d<\/em> he added.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s previous increase in army strength came last December, when its numbers were boosted to just over 2.2 million, including 1.3 million troops.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow has complained for decades over the expansion of NATO in Europe, viewing it as a threat to national security. Russian officials have cited the intention of bringing Ukraine into the ranks of the US-led military bloc as a primary cause of the current conflict.<\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin views the hostilities as a proxy war waged by the West, and has accused the US and its allies of intentionally escalating it. The US intends to fight <em>\u201cto the last Ukrainian\u201d<\/em> as long as it can damage Russia, Moscow believes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/604184-peskov-russian-army-strength\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Threats from the \u201cextremely hostile\u201d West require action, spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":148439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=295053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295055,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295053\/revisions\/295055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/148439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}