As the Ukrainian war continues in the midst of the U.S.-led peace offer negotiations with Russia and Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the state to soldier 160 000 men to the Russian army.
Putin just signed a decree allowing the Russian military’s bi-annual recruitment process to begin, according to CNN. The second stage of military conscription, which includes men between the ages of 18 and 30, began on Tuesday and will continue through July 15 according to the store.
The most extensive military review in 14 years was reported by Fox News as a result of the most recent military conscription order. Russia conscripted 134,500 people for service in the Soviet army in 2022, up from 150, 000 last year, according to Fox News.
According to Fox News, the Kremlin and the Russian Federation’s Ministry of Defense have made claims that the new Soviet troops are not being sent into battle with Ukraine and that the review is not connected to the country’s conflict in Ukraine. The outlet did point out that some of Russia’s troops were formerly held hostage by Ukraine when the country’s Kursk region was the site of an August 2014 offensive.
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Russia’s most recent recruitment efforts comes as Dmitry Peskov, a Kremlin spokesman, told Reuters on Monday that the nation is also “working on” a peace cope with Ukraine. Putin’s subsequent censure of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky caused President Donald Trump to declare he was “very unhappy” and “pissed off” by Putin.
Rebekah Koffler, a former member of the Defense Intelligence Agency ( DIA ) and author of” Putin’s Playbook,” claimed that Putin’s plan to appoint 160 000 more soldiers to the Russian military is intended to amplify the conflict in Ukraine.
There is no possible peace or serenity agreement between Russia and Ukraine, according to Koffler. What President Trump seeks is regrettably, impossible, and impossible. Putin’s goal is to continue fighting in order to convince Ukraine to abandon its country.
Koffler claimed that Putin’s recruitment plan also aims to keep Russia’s benefits over Ukraine in terms of manpower. Putin previously stated to Fox News that Russia may expand its military to about 2.39 million active assistance people, of which 1.5 million are already serving.
Putin is increasing his agency’s position to hinder for a implementation or failing to prevent it by force, the original DIA intelligence officer said.” Then that Germany and France are considering to install reassurance forces into Ukraine, he is factoring in those numbers, so he is increasing his force’s posture.
Putin, according to Koffler, “has ready Russia for a long, drawn-out conflict where he wants the Russian troops to be prepared to fight until the last Ukrainian and the last weapon in the NATO arsenal.”
