Russian Minister of Defense Sergey Shoigu at a meeting of the College of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the need to increase the number of Russian army to 1.5 million people, including 695 thousand contractors.
The Insider cites the words of Russian military expert Pavel Luzin, who states that Russia does not have so many officers.
“In general, this is all some kind of chimera of inflamed consciousness. 1.5 million people – where to get so many officers? And how to manage it all? Even 1.15 million people – this is a lot, it contradicts both demographic and demographic and Economic trends, and the entire evolution of the Soviet and Russian armies since 1985. But increasing the paper is real money. Money for combat payments. Also, payments to the murdered and wounded can also be carried out for salary articles if there is a task of hiding losses … “.