After experiencing significant setbacks and heavy troop losses in the six months of the Ukraine invasion, Russia needs to increase its troops in the country to consolidate the terrain it now controls and continue its military operations.

According to the Pentagon, Putin has been forced to resort to people serving sentences in Russian prisons, in addition to incorporating "old, unfit and untrained" recruits.

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7.25

The US reveals Russia's problems in finding soldiers

Russia

is struggling to find more soldiers to fight in

Ukraine

, knocking on doors even in prisons and recruiting old, unfit and untrained recruits, a US defense official said.

The source indicated that a decree issued last Thursday by Russian President

Vladimir Putin

calls for an increase in the number of army troops by 10%, to 1.15 million soldiers, to start in January next year.

After experiencing significant setbacks and heavy troop losses in the six months of the Ukraine invasion, the Pentagon believes "this effort is unlikely to succeed, given that Russia has historically failed to meet its manpower and manpower goals," he said. the official.

"Russia has already started trying to expand its recruitment efforts," the official who asked to speak on condition of anonymity told reporters.

"They have already done this in part by removing the age limit for new recruits, and they have also recruited prisoners," he added.

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7.14

Russia identifies the Ukrainian accomplice who made the bomb that killed Dugina

The FSB security service has identified the suspect as

Bogdán Tsiganenko

, also a Ukrainian citizen, like Natalia Vovk, born in 1978. The individual, whom the press release defines as

"a member of a Ukrainian sabotage group"

, would have entered Russia on July 30 through Estonia and left the country one day before the murder.

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7.02

NATO multinational exercises begin in Georgia

More than 2,400 soldiers from 20 NATO countries are taking part in the 'Noble Partner 2022' military exercises in Georgia, which will last until mid-September.

The Georgian Ministry of Defense indicated that the maneuvers take place at the Vaziani base, about 25 kilometers east of Tbilisi, and military personnel from

the United States, the United Kingdom, Turkey and Germany

participate .

Among the participants is also a multinational team from

Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine

.

For the first time the exercises, which are being held for the sixth time, are attended by the armed forces of Sweden and Japan.

"The purpose of the exercises is to increase the level of interaction and combat readiness of Georgia, the United States and other countries in order to

ensure stability and security in the Black Sea region

," the Defense Ministry said.

Georgia, like Ukraine, was promised NATO membership in 2008.

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