The number of soldiers and sergeants serving under contract in the next seven years will increase by almost half, that is, up to 535 thousand. Man. This is more than half the nominal size of the army of the Russian Federation, approved in 2008 in the amount of 1 million people. Now, as the Defense Ministry urges for conscripted soldiers will leave only the most basic specialty.
«This fall, we in the Armed Forces was a historic event: the first time the number of soldiers performing military service under the contract exceeded the number of recruits and reached 295 thousand. man. Recruits became the most of a small social group in the armed forces: they are already several thousand less than professional soldiers and sergeants. By the end of next year we will have 352 thousand. Contract, and we will continue to increase annually the number of contract so that by 2021 we will have 535 thousand. Servicemen on contract “, – quotes” Times ” State Secretary of the Ministry of Defense Nikolai Pankov.
While the number of seats for recruits in the army will be reduced, just abandon the call in the Defense Ministry does not intend to.
«The annual increase in military personnel, military service under the contract, gives us reason to raise the issue of slowly but surely reducing the number of soldiers performing military service. But on appeal, we will not give up, we will follow the path of the mixed principle of manning the Armed Forces. Each team will have two battalions manned only by contract, and one battalion equipped conscripts, “- said Pankow.
kontraktnik take junior commanding positions, as well as take the responsibility to serve the equipment and weapons. But, as noted by Pankov, “arrows contractors, of course, will also be».
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