Six months into the war in Ukraine, does Vladimir Putin realize he may soon be short of men? On Thursday, August 25, the President of the Russian Federation signed a decree on increasing the number of servicemen in the army. In particular, the Kremlin leader wants to add 137,000 people to his current troops, which should therefore increase from a little over a million to 1.15 million, which is more than 10%.
This measure, as laconic as it is evasive, is the continuation of the actions of the Kremlin only starting from this summer. Recently, Russia has indeed created territorial battalions of volunteers dedicated to sending to Ukraine. He allowed it tooyoung people with general secondary education to immediately become contract soldiers after three months of conscription“, he explains Figaro Dimitri Minich, Russian Armed Forces Specialist at the Russia/NIS Center in Ifri.
Conscription, volunteering, contractual…
Decrees of this kind are widespread in Russia. “The target workforce…
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Source: Le Figaro
