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Volodymyr Putin's decree on increasing the staff of the Russian Federation by 13...

What means Putin's decision to increase the staff of the Russian Army - ISW Estimates and a Map of Fighting

Volodymyr Putin's decree on increasing the staff of the Russian Federation by 137 thousand people, up to 1. 15 million, is unlikely to allow Russia to create an effective additional fighting power in the war against Ukraine. The experts of the Institute for War Study (ISW) in their new construction for August 25 are given.

They believe that Putin's decree on increasing the number of Russian armed forces since January 1, 2023 "is unlikely to create a significant battle power in the near future", but probably indicates that the dictator is unlikely to declare mass mobilization in the near future. Video Day The purpose of this Decree Analytics ISW is an attempt to compensate for the losses from invasion of Ukraine and collect forces to continue its "operation".

At the same time, experts doubt that the Russian army will be able to attract the necessary number of people to reach the bar of 1. 15 million people, since historically the number of the army of the Russian Federation has always been less than the nominally established threshold. For example, in 2022, before Russia's full -scale invasion of Ukraine, there were about 850,000 servicemen (and not just over 1 million, as it should be).

"Russia is likely to face serious obstacles to replenishing the army with a large number of new soldiers," Isw said. The matter both about the problems of recruitment and the possibilities of training of recruits - which decreased after the beginning of the Great War with Ukraine on February 24, 2022, since some of the training units were sent to the front and suffered losses.

ISW analysts suggest that it can also use the autumn call in October 2022 to replenish the losses of the Russian Federation, which should attract about 130,000 people in the army. Or to include in the army of the Russian Federation of fighters "L/DNR", which are now formally not part of the Russian Armed Forces.