Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, said that 10 thousand people signed contracts with the Russian Armed Forces last week. An excerpt from a meeting on contract recruitment for the army was published in his newspaper. telegraph channel.
Medvedev noted that, according to the Ministry of Defense, from January 1 to July 4, more than 185 thousand people were accepted into the ranks of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, of which about 109 thousand people were in reserve.
He said that in June, the rate of recruitment of contracted soldiers rose to 1,400 people a day. The attempted armed insurgency did not change the attitude of citizens to contract service in the special operations zone, the volunteers show a very high level of support for the president and the state and are ready to defend their homeland.
“In the last week alone, nearly 10,000 people signed contracts with the Armed Forces,” Medvedev said.
The Russian Ministry of Defense reportedthat three brigades and four separate detachments of voluntary assault units signed contracts with the ministry to perform tasks in the interests of the country’s defense.
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