Putin wants 1.5 million combat troops in Russia’s armed forces

• Sergei Shoigu said Russia’s 1.15 million troops will bolster security.
• Professional soldiers would make up half the combat force.
• Kremlin intends to increase Russia’s armed forces to 1.5 million combatants.

Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that adding to the country’s 1.15million servicemen and women would “guarantee the solving of problems related to Russia’s military security”

According to reports, the Kremlin intends to increase Russia’s armed forces to 1.5 million combatants to avoid embarrassing situations like the one in Ukraine.

At a conference of top military leaders, Sergei Shoigu, Russia’s minister of defense, stated that increasing the nation’s 1.15 million active duty personnel would “ensure the solving of challenges relating to Russia’s military security.”

He stated that professional soldiers rather than conscripts would make up about half of the fighting force.

He implied a threat when he declared that extra forces will be deployed in the country’s western region in response to the neighboring countries of the west, Sweden and Finland, declaring their intent to join NATO earlier this year.

Putin signed an order in the summer to raise the population by 137,000 by the start of 2023, up to 1.15 million, and has already finalized plans along similar lines.

More than 300,000 reservists were called up in a contentious move by Putin in September, which resulted in a large-scale migration of young men from Russia and sporadic acts of violence at military conscription centers.

Within hours following the order, young men anxiously trying to avoid the draught gridlocked Russia’s borders.

People marched through the streets in Siberia and other places where losses have been particularly felt while chanting, “I’m not going to die for you.”

In a harsh crackdown on the unrest, Moscow detained more than 1,000 people.

After more gunshots and firebombing were reported across the nation, the reactions turned more ominous.

In Irkutsk, Siberia, a conscript who was unemployed walked into an enlisting office and shot the chief local military recruiter was one incident that was directly related to the mobilization.

Another shooter entered a school in Izhevsk, about 600 miles east of Moscow, and started shooting, killing at least 13 people, including small children.

In the ten months after the Russo-Ukrainian War began, tens of thousands of people have died, according to US and other analyses, and Putin’s war is now disintegrating.

The dictator urged his military leaders to review the Western weapons employed since February during the briefing yesterday in order to improve the capabilities of the armed forces and soldiers.

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