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
The Kremlin said on Tuesday that an order by President Vladimir Putin to transform Russia ’s army into the second largest in the world was needed to address growing threats on Russia ’s western borders and instability to the east.
“This is due to the number of threats that exist to our country along the perimeter of our borders,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a conference call. According to data from the International Institute for Strategic Studies , a leading military think tank, such an increase would see Russia leapfrog the United States and India in terms of the number of active combat soldiers it has at its disposal and be second only to China in size.Ukraine
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