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Numbers by themselves do not tell the whole story. Look at all the problems the Russian army has had in Ukraine. Those problems extend to everything touching the Russian military including training. The US and NATO invests a lot of money in training. Russia cuts corners and takes it for granted.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian military training facilities have been reduced in number, poorly maintained and managed. They don't have well run training programs anymore. Last winter, the training was keeping conscripts in one place to dump them on the front lines later. A lot of conscripts were dumped on the front lines and froze and starved to death for lack of winter gear, shelter, and food.

2 million warm bodies are not 2 million trained soldiers. To have trained soldiers Russia will have to rebuild all its military training programs. They have not even started on this.