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In 2002, 10% of the Russian armed forces (100,000 of a total active strength of 988,100) were women according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, [14] [page needed] whereas researcher Aleksandr I. Smirnov stated that about 114,600 women had military contracts that year.
The current tally of women in the Russian Army stands at around 115,000 to 160,000, representing 10% of Russia's military strength. [citation needed] In 2014 it was announced that the number of women is going to be increased up to 80,000 over the whole Russian Armed Forces, but that goal was missed by 2020, when it was at 41,000. [98]
Despite long-term personnel shortages in the Russian Armed Forces ever since the 2008 Russian military reform, the Russian Ministry of Defence has made little effort to enlist women to fill the gaps, instead choosing to crack down on draft-evading men in order to increase its coverage levels from c. 70% in 2012 to c. 90–95% in 2020. [19]
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Many among the Russian military authorities were waiting to see how the women fared in battle and whether they would have a positive effect on male soldiers. [ 4 ] After the 1st Russian Women's Battalion of Death failed to have the intended effect of revitalizing the war-weary elements of the Russian army, the military authorities began to ...
Alla Antonova says she suffered beatings, had a plastic bag thrust over her head and endured many other threats from Russian soldiers in occupied Ukraine who wanted to know where her son-in-law ...
Soviet women played an important role in World War II (whose Eastern Front was known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union). While most worked in industry, transport, agriculture and other civilian roles, working double shifts to free up enlisted men to fight and increase military production, a sizable number of women served in the army.
Russia has begun withdrawing a large amount of military equipment and troops from Syria following the ouster of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, according to two US officials and a western ...