On Monday Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to increase the number military personnel in the Russian Armed Forces from around 2.2 million to 2,389, 130 this also include the 1.5 million personnel.
This will take effect from 1 December this year and this means there will be an additional 180,000 troops.
When the war started on 24 February 2022 Putin increased the number of forces to 1,150,628 after six months of the full-scale invasion, the Kyiv Independent reports.
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Ukrainian officials believe that the Kremlin is recruiting, “covertly” some 30,000 troops per month amid Russia’s high losses of soldiers.
Officials in Kyiv believe that to date some 630,000 Russian have either been killed in action, wounded or captured.
Military-political expert of the “Information Resistance” group Oleksandr Kovalenko, told RBC-Ukraine that the increase in troops shows that Putin has problems in his war.
Russian forces are lacking in manpower, equipment, leadership and morale and Putin is therefore throwing more cannon fodder into the meatgrinder to compensate.
The expert noted, “This exclusively emphasizes that they are facing difficulties in the war with Ukraine because they lack human resources, which are becoming the main focus as their equipment supplies dwindle.”
“In the future, the Russian army will become a large marching battalion, mostly consisting of infantry with very little equipment. They almost have no production left now, just some restoration efforts, but no real production,” Kovalenko explained.
He added that very people want to join Putin’s war in Ukraine and the Kremlin are offering money for new recruits.
He said, “Even now, they are offering 2 million rubles [around £16,616] to recruit volunteers. They are facing mobilization problems, and in the future, this will become a more repressive format because no one wants to join their army.”
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