There is more wood in the furnace to protect The pulse of Kyiv and NATO on the war front. President of Russia Vladimir Putin This Friday signed a decree so that the Army approximately 170,000 soldiers more, which means: 15% of those in service are men Extra for the army. The president justifies his decision with “threats” from his conflict with Ukraine and the “continued expansion of NATO.”
According to the document, there will be approximately 2.2 million personnel in the Russian Armed Forces, 1.3 million of whom are field troops. Both Ukraine and Russia want to win fundamental and moral on the battlefield, because in recent months he has been at the front barely moved. Putin explained that from his perspective, he saw enlargement as “an adequate response to the aggression of the NATO bloc.” This was the tenth presidential decree on military expansion since 1996, with the last one signed by the Russian President himself in August 2022.
The Russian Ministry of Defense points out that this measure is a response to the growth of the West’s war potential. “The USA plans to change” 200 nuclear bombs Outdated freefall aircraft deployed in Europe and Turkey with a new high-precision version by the end of 2025. Under current conditions, a further increase in combat power and the number of armed forces is an appropriate response to aggressive activities. NATO bloc,” the Russian military body said in a statement.
No mobilization in sight
To avoid a moment of panic Putin stated that the recruitment of new personnel will be used to enlist 170,000 soldiers, as in the case of partial mobilization at the end of 2022, and that this personnel will gradually grow to achieve the desired goal. Those who criticize the regime say that this is actually a “secret mobilizationThis has already happened with the pressure on naturalized Central Asians to fight at the front or on convicts who went to fight at the front under the flag of the Wagner mercenaries.
Some critical voices have pointed out that both official recruitment and partial mobilization were too high last year. denser around It has been a little more permanent in Russia, especially in Siberia and the Caucasus, and in big cities such as Moscow and Saint Petersburg.
To escape mobilisation, the past and what may come in the future, more than a million Russians Having already left the country last year, from today onwards a man will be prohibited from leaving the country by land, sea and air from the moment he is mobilized and will not be able to reach another country. Most chose countries such as: Georgia, Armenia And KazakhistanDue to its cultural and geographical proximity, the opportunities they offer to move there in 2022 are somewhat diminished today due to local discontent or pressure from the Kremlin.