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the improvement of troops' structure and composition, and the optimization of their numbers, including for Specialised Troops (ru:Специальные войска, a term covering several combat service support branches such as Engineers; Russian Signal Troops; Chemical; Motor Transport; Russian Railway Troops, and Road Troops [construction])
Guards formations of the Airborne Troops (Cyrillic: гвардейские соединения воздушно-десантных войск): 7th Guards Airborne Division 76th Guards Air Assault Division
The exact number of reservists is unknown because a relevant paragraph of the Presidential Decree [96] which determines the number of reserve troops is classified. The military units manned by reservists are determined by General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, and this information is classified too.
The increase would take the overall number of Russian military personnel to nearly 2.4 million, including 1.5 million troops, according to the decree published by the Kremlin Monday. The new ...
The previous increase in Russian troop numbers came last December, when a decree by Putin set the total number of Russian military personnel at about 2.2 million, including 1.32 million troops. The most capable Russian troops have been pressing an offensive in eastern Ukraine, where they have made incremental but steady gains in the past few ...
NATO's top commander said on Thursday he did not believe Russia's military has deployed enough troops to make a strategic breakthrough in the region around Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine. General ...
Senior NCOs had their chevrons replaced by plain bars (small horizontal bars for corporals and sergeants increasing in number with seniority, large horizontal bars for staff sergeants, and vertical bars for master sergeants). These rank badges mirror the insignia of both the Imperial Russian Army and the Soviet Army in the 1970s.
It includes the forces of the former Internal Troops of Russia, SOBR, OMON, and other internal military forces outside of the Russian Armed Forces. [ 1 ] In 2017, President Putin designated 27 March, the same day Emperor Alexander I organised the Internal Guards Corps [ ru ] in 1811 of the Old Style Julian calendar , as National Guard Day .