Russia's Defense Minister Shoigu said that Russian President Vladimir Putin had decided to increase the total military strength to 1.5 million.
In order to maintain control of the four unilaterally annexed Ukrainian provinces, he emphasizes the idea of increasing military strength and continuing the invasion.
Russia's Defense Minister Shoigu said on the 17th that President Putin had decided to increase the total military strength to 1.5 million at a meeting of Defense Ministry and military officials.
Shoigu said the military buildup was to ensure Russia's security and to maintain control of the four Ukrainian provinces that Russia unilaterally annexed last September. We are planning to organize.
On the 17th, spokesman Peskov of the Russian presidential office argued that this was "to respond to the proxy war that Western countries are waging against Russia."
Regarding the total strength of the Russian military, the Putin administration announced in August last year that it would increase the total number of soldiers to about 1.15 million. He stressed the need to increase the number to 10,000.
On the other hand, at the site of a nine-story apartment building in Dnipro, a city in eastern Ukraine that was hit by a missile attack by the Russian military on the 14th of this month, the Ukrainian authorities used heavy machinery to search and rescue anyone left behind under the rubble. I continued, but announced on the 17th that the rescue operation had ended.
The Ukrainian emergency service said 45 people, including six children, were killed and 79 injured in the attack, sparking international condemnation of the Russian military.