Putin’s Kitchen Sink Strategy in Ukraine
Putin is showing us he is prepared to throw the kitchen sink at Kyiv and hide whatever breaks in the process.More of EverythingThe first of Monday’s decrees increased the ceiling on Russia’s armed forces by 15,500. This brings the number of military service members to 1,550,500 and the overall authorized strength to 2,441,630. Russia’s armed forces have now added 52,500 positions since March—50,500 of them military posts—across four expansions in seven months.This is not enough.
- ▪Putin is showing us he is prepared to throw the kitchen sink at Kyiv and hide whatever breaks in the process.More of EverythingThe first of Monday’s decrees increased the ceiling on Russia’s armed forces by 15,500.
- ▪This brings the number of military service members to 1,550,500 and the overall authorized strength to 2,441,630.
- ▪Russia’s armed forces have now added 52,500 positions since March—50,500 of them military posts—across four expansions in seven months.This is not enough.
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...By David Averre0ShareNewsweek is a Trust Project memberSee more of our trusted coverage when you search.Prefer Newsweek on Googleto see more of our trusted coverage when you search.Vladimir Putin spent his Monday making Russia better equipped to wage war, and harder to audit while it does so.With two signatures, he expanded the size of Russia’s armed forces for the fourth time this year, then pulled the curtain over the evidence that exposes the damage Ukraine is inflicting across the Russian border.Three days earlier, Russia's election commission said Putin's United Russia party had won a record 349 of 450 State Duma seats, cementing its largest ever parliamentary majority.
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