“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.