British writer Pegot Sawyer expressed confidence that Russian President Vladimir Putin approved a decree to increase the size of the Russian armed forces after it became clear that the war in Ukraine would not end soon.
The writer pointed out in an article published by the British newspaper The Guardian that the Russian president had approved an increase in the number of Russian troops from 1.9 million recruits to more than two million recruits at the time the war in Ukraine began. the seventh month, and there was not a glimmer of hope that his fire would die down in the country in the near future.
The writer points out that it is obvious that the decision of the Russian president is aimed at compensating for the losses of Russian troops in the military operation that began in Ukraine at the end of February, explaining that the president’s decision will come into force on January 1 next year. add nearly 137,000 new recruits to the Russian forces.
The author says the increase is the largest of its kind since the last increase approved by the Russian President in 2017, which included the addition of 13,698 recruits to Russian forces in addition to the addition of 5,357 non-combat forces.
The writer adds that Russia has not declared a general mobilization since the beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine, but resorts to the method of “covert mobilization”, when in some regions throughout Russia volunteer battalions are formed through material-remunerative contracts for those aged from eighteen to sixty years.
The writer adds that the decision of the President of Russia to increase Russian forces, which he announced yesterday, Thursday, did not indicate how this increase would be carried out, but he instructed the Russian government to allocate sufficient funds for this purpose.
The writer says the Russian president’s decision followed statements by a senior Russian diplomat in the Financial Times, in which he indicated that Moscow no longer had any hope of ending the war in Ukraine through diplomatic decisions and expected the conflict to continue. there for a while.
Meanwhile, the writer adds, Ukraine is ruling out any opportunity to sit down at the negotiating table to end the war, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky promising to restore all territories controlled by Russian forces since the start of the war in Ukraine.
