Russia increased the size of their armed forces to 1.5 million men, more than half a million men more than in 2021. Their 2023 defense budget has tripled from peacetime levels to 9% of GDP and is 50% more than 2022. This would make their military spending surpass that of China and be the no.2 highest in the world.
The focus is on reforming and enlarging their ground forces rather than the other arms.
They activated 17 ground divisions, including 5 entirely new ones. The other 14 are an expansion of their entire Airborne and marine corps, turning all brigades into divisions which have 3 times more combatants.
Their ground force is now approx. twice the size as it was in 2021. In 2023 they plan to run large scale exercises "West 2023" where they prepare defensive operations against NATO.
250,000 Russian and allied troops served in Ukraine in 2022 with around 100,000 casualties (25,000-20,000 killed)
Approx. 300,000 Russian and allied troops currently are operating in Ukraine vs. 900,000 Ukrainian troops.
Russian economy and military are rapidly transitioning back to the Soviet large scale warfare army with 3 million men.
WW3 is just around the corner now..