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I announced Moscow Today, Tuesday, the order issued by the President Vladimir Putin Increasing the size of the Russian military “to become the second largest military force in the world” is necessary to confront the growing threats and instability on Russia’s borders.
The spokesman said, The Kremlin Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a conference call that this was “due to the number of threats our country faces” and what he called the extremely hostile environment on Russia’s western borders and the instability on its eastern borders, and that this required taking the necessary measures.
On Monday, Putin ordered the regular forces of the Russian army to increase by about 180,000 soldiers to 1.5 million, in a move that would make it the second largest army in the world after its Chinese counterpart in terms of the number of troops.
This move could also make Russia go beyond US andIndia In the number of regular forces and becomes second after Chinaaccording to data from the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a major military research center, according to Reuters.
Moscow is seeking to increase the number of regular soldiers for the third time since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine in February 2022, at a time when Russian forces in eastern Ukraine are advancing on parts of the wide, 1,000-kilometer-long front line, while trying to expel Ukrainian forces from the Russian Kursk region.
The head of the Russian parliament’s defense committee, Andrei Kartapolov, said on Monday that part of the rationale for the expansion was to create new military structures and units to improve security in northwestern Russia after the accession of Finland Adjacent to NATO (NATO).
On the other hand, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced today that two Chinese ships arrived in Vladivostok in Russia’s Far East to conduct joint maneuvers with Russia, in a new indication of the rapprochement between Moscow and Beijing.
On September 10, Chinese warships participated in joint maneuvers with the Russians in the northern Sea of Japan, as part of large-scale naval maneuvers organized by Moscow in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, the Mediterranean, the Caspian Sea, and the Baltic Sea.
Russia has also previously expressed concerns about what it called the growing US-backed militarization of Japan and possible plans to deploy US missiles there, amid Russian accusations that the West is preparing for a large-scale war.
Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin said last Friday that Western countries are creating NATO-like military alliances in the Asia-Pacific region, with the aim of preparing for a large-scale war and a repeat of the Ukrainian war.
And early last June he said Dmitry Medvedev Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council The President Vladimir Putin For the first time, Russian weapons were allowed to be sent to areas at war with countries supplying weapons to Ukraine.
Last July, the Russian parliament voted to raise the maximum age for male conscription to 30 from 27, and the new legislation went into effect on January 1.
In late March, Putin signed a decree on routine military conscription in the spring, calling up 150,000 citizens to perform compulsory military service.
