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on september 16, local time, russian president vladimir putin signed a presidential decree to expand the russian armed forces by 180,000 people, bringing the total number of staff to 2,389,130, including 1.5 million active military personnel.

this is the third time that russia has expanded its military since the outbreak of the russian-ukrainian conflict. the previous two expansions were by 137,000 and 170,000 respectively. according to reuters, this expansion will make russia surpass the united states and india in terms of military size, making it the second largest country in the world.

on september 16, russian president vladimir putin ordered the expansion of the russian military to 1.5 million personnel.

according to the kremlin's official website, the presidential decree will take effect on december 1 this year. putin also instructed the russian government to allocate funds to the russian ministry of defense through the federal budget to promote the implementation of the military expansion policy.

the last time putin signed a presidential decree to expand the military was in december 2023, when he requested that the russian armed forces increase their staffing by 170,000 to a total of 2,209,130, including 1.32 million military personnel. this means that the 180,000 people added this time are all military personnel.

according to the kremlin’s official website, the presidential decree requires the number of russian armed forces to increase to about 2.389 million.