Posted on 08/29/2022 1:04:10 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
He's running low on cannon fodder?.....................
Trying to replace his losses in Ukraine is what he’s doing.
Shouldn't be hard finding 500 guys.
When our Ukrainian cannon fodder runs out, are you going to volunteer? I certainly hope we don’t send American boy cannon fodder AGAIN when the Ukrainian bodies run out.
Because he’s winning so hugely that he wants to increase the military to show off. (joking).
Just more typical propaganda from reddit people writing stuff...
The increase in Russian Army size was already in the works months and months ago and was part of Russian Doctrine to shift from slowly shift from conscripts, etc.
Unreal how Western/EU/US/UK/NATO/Pro-Ukrainian media just continues to dig and scratch through piles of BS to ‘print’ what they call news or analysis, etc. Pathetic.
This article is confused. It is conflating the size of the “Russian Army” by which I assume they mean the ground forces, with the size of overall “Armed Forces”, which includes the Navy, Air Force, etc.. By what I’ve been able to find, the actual “army” has/had less than 300k troops, not over a million.
Riggght....
Are there enough sober Russians to fill the army? Then again, what would the generals care if their cannon fodder were sober.
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Spot on ! The Russians, similar to US, invest large number of personnel in naval, strategic, and tactical air and missile forces. Though the US does invest in a larger more deployable ground force.
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“By what I’ve been able to find, the actual “army” has/had less than 300k troops, not over a million.”
According to Putin’s decree, which comes into force from the beginning of next year, the full-time strength of the Russian army increases to 1,150,628 people. !!!!
He will ‘proclaim’ larger army force by end of year!?!
The RGF had 250,000 professional or contract personnel in Feb - do not think that they are all infantry as only 40% sometimes 50% are infantry - all the rest are support, air defense, armored, artillery, etc. There is so much misinformation out there about the make up of present-day Russian forces, it becomes difficult to ascertain the reality.
The million or sometimes millions you see on some places are based on the old Soviet Army figures - now long defunct. Some people even use the long-ignored 2012 S.Shoigu proposal to create BTGs in the RGF. That sort of military division is good, if you are fighting a low level insurgency like Afghan - Iraq, but not so good fighting a real intense war. Therefore, the General Staff of the RGF reverted to the standard military designations of Army, Division, Brigade, Battalion, Company etc.
Thank you.
As I said, I believe it is an error - most likely in translation. The Russians are not tripling the size of their “army” in one year, which would mean he was adding more than three quarters of a million. The number was clearly referring to overall Armed Forces, of which the ground forces/army are just one component.
“I believe it is an error - most likely in translation. The Russians are not tripling the size of their “army” in one year, which would mean he was adding more than three quarters of a million. The number was clearly referring to overall Armed Forces, of which the ground forces/army are just one component.”
I agree Bruce. You are most likely correct.
I have not seen or found this the alleged document of Putin’s ‘Decree’ anywhere on-line.
“According to PUTIN’S DECREES, which comes into force from the beginning of next year, the full-time strength of the Russian army increases to 1,150,628 people. “The Government of the Russian Federation should provide for the allocation of budgetary allocations from the federal budget to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation necessary for implementation,” the document says.
This decree was signed against the background of significant failures of the occupation army.”
BTW
Occupiers Drain Blood from Ukrainian Students
by Olha Povaliaieva
Friday, April 29, 2022
In the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, students are forced by Russians to donate blood for wounded Russian soldiers
According to the law, which is almost the only one not violated by Russia, students of higher education institutions can not be sent to war.
But the occupiers still found an illegal device for our young people — they are forced to donate blood for the occupiers. According to the ombudsman of Ukraine Lyudmila Denisova, as of April 29, 700 cases of forced donation are already known. The Russians are literally taking blood from both our military and civilians.
Universities where the illegal management of the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk forces students to donate:
-Donetsk National University;
-Donetsk National Technical University;
-Donbas National Academy of Civil Engineering and
Architecture;
-Donbas Law Academy;
-Gorky Donetsk National Medical University;
-Luhansk Medical University;
-Luhansk Agrarian University;
-Luhansk Pedagogical University;
-Luhansk Academy of Internal Affairs.
Forced donation is a crime under article 11 of the additional protocol to the Geneva Conventions.
When you claim a town has been leveled you show some bombed out buildings that could be from anywhere. Pics of smoke in the distance is a destroyed Russian airfield.
Got any more videos from a war game you want to pass off as real footage?
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