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By Andrew Osborn (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin on Monday ordered the regular size of the Russian army to be increased by 180,000 troops to 1.5 million active servicemen in a move that would ...
The move, the third time Putin has expanded the army's ranks since sending his military into Ukraine in February 2022, comes as Russian forces push forward in eastern Ukraine on parts of a vast ...
In an update published this month, the General Staff of Ukraine’s military said Russia has lost 616,300 troops. The United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defense also estimates that Russia has suffered ...
The numbers of military personnel listed include both support personnel (supplies, construction, and contracting) and actual combat personnel. For a typical country, the proportion of this total that comprises actual combat forces is about 26% [ citation needed ] (so, for every soldier there will be around three support personnel).
The cut decreased Russia's military spending to $66.3 billion, in which Russia slumped to being the fourth-highest military spender. [133] Russia's 2019 defense budget was US$48 billion and the 2020 figure was $61.7 billion.
On 31 August 2023, the Chief of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, Lieutenant General Kyrylo Budanov said that the Russian military has sent personnel from the newly formed and likely under-strength 25th Combined Arms Army to Kupyansk to replace units from the 41st Combined Arms Army of the Central Military District.
After a pro-Russian president was toppled in Ukraine's 2014 Maidan Revolution, Russia annexed Crimea and began giving military support to pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
- "'Field Wife': Officers Make Life Hell For Women In Russia's Military, A Female Medic Says," RFE/RL March 30, 2023 The field wife phenomenon was widespread after Operation Barbarossa, the German Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. List of Russian military bases; Awards and emblems of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation