russia plans to increase its army and form two combined arms armies and 14 divisions by the end of this year. This was stated by russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu, according to russian media, UNN reports.
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According to Shoigu, Russia intends to continue "improving the combat and numerical composition" of the army "in accordance with the threats to the country's military security.
He also said that an additional army corps, a motorized rifle division, as well as the Dnipro River Flotilla and a brigade of river boats of the flotilla have already appeared in the occupation army.
By the end of the year, it is planned to form two combined arms armies and thirty formations, including fourteen divisions and sixteen brigades
Addendum
The representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Andriy Yusov, said earlier that mobilization in russia has not stopped and may intensify more openly after the "presidential elections in russia.
Recall
russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree "On the Military-Administrative Division," according to which the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine are included in the Southern Military District of the russian Federation.