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DESCRIPTION: Medvedev chairs meeting on Russian army expansion
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DEPUTY CHAIRMAN OF RUSSIAN SECURITY COUNCIL DMITRY MEDVEDEV
Moscow - 3 August 2023
1. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of Russia's Security Council:
“The task remains the same: to make contract service as prestigious as possible. To achieve it, organizational, economic and social decisions have been made in recent months.”
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2. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of Russia's Security Council:
“According to the Ministry of Defense, from January 1 to August 3, that is, today, of this year, a total of more than 231,000 people were accepted for contract.”
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A total of 231,000 men have enlisted in the Russian army as contract soldiers since Jan. 1, Deputy Chair of Russia's Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday.
Medvedev's remarks at a meeting on expanding the army come several months after Russian authorities launched a massive campaign to entice more men to sign contracts with the army.
“The task remains the same: to make contract service as prestigious as possible," said Medvedev.
"To achieve it, organizational, economic and social decisions have been made in recent months,” he added.
Moscow is seeking to boost its depleting force in Ukraine and to bring the size of its army to 1.5 million troops.
In December, Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu declared that this is the number of troops the country needs “to guarantee the fulfillment of tasks to ensure Russia’s security.”
He did not say when the military will reach that size. At the time, Russia's military had about 1 million soldiers.
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