2023-12-01 22:03:54
More wood in the oven to maintain the pulse on kyiv and NATO on the war front. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree this Friday so that the Army has about 170,000 personnel more, which would mean a 15% men in service extra for the army. The president justifies his decision by the “threats” derived from his conflict with Ukraine and “the ongoing expansion of NATO.”
According to the document, the Russian Armed Forces will have approximately 2.2 million people on staff, 1.3 million of them field troops. Both Ukraine and Russia seek to win ground and moral on the battlefield, since in recent months the front has barely moved. Putin declared that from his point of view he considers enlargement to be an “adequate response to the aggressiveness of the NATO bloc.” This has been the tenth presidential decree to expand the army since 1996, the last one being signed by the Russian president himself in August 2022.
The Russian Ministry of Defense on this measure points out that it is a response to the growth of Western war potential. “The United States intends to replace 200 nuclear bombs obsolete free-fall aircraft located in Europe and Turkey with a new high-precision version by the end of 2025. Under the current circumstances, the further increase in combat strength and the number of armed forces is an appropriate reaction to the aggressive activities of the bloc of NATO,” the Russian military body said in a statement.
No mobilization in sight
To avoid a moment of panic Like the one at the end of 2022 with partial mobilization, Putin himself pointed out that to recruit the 170,000 soldiers, the hiring of new personnel will be used, which will gradually grow to reach the desired objective. Critics of the regime fear that this is actually a “covert mobilizationsomething that has already happened with the pressure on naturalized Central Asians to fight on the front or on the convicts who went to fight on the front under the flag of the Wagner mercenaries.
Some critical voices have pointed out that both the official recruitment and the partial mobilization last year have been much most intense on the periphery of Russiaespecially in Siberia and the Caucasus, while in large cities such as Moscow and Saint Petersburg it has been somewhat more residual.
To escape the mobilization, the past and those that may come in the future, more than a million Russians He has already left the country in the last year, since today, from the moment a man is mobilized, he will be banned from leaving the country by land, sea and air and will not be able to reach another country. legal. Most of them have chosen countries like Georgia, Armenia y Kazakhstandue to its cultural and geographical proximity, in addition to the facilities they offered in 2022 to move there, somewhat reduced today due to local discontent or pressure from the Kremlin.
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