> “Between January 1 and May 19, 117,400 people have been accepted into the ranks of the armed forces on a contractual basis and as part of our voluntary formations,” Medvedev said.
https://www.thedefensepost.com/2023/05/20/russia-recruited-troops-2023/
In December Shoigu said they were planning to increase the size of the army to 1.5 million.
However this 117,000 figure does not count for casualties nor does it count for the number of soldiers whose contracts would have expired and who would have left the army or who left the army for other reasons. I don't know how many soldiers would have needed to be replaced from these. So we don't know how much this has actually increased their army size by.
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They won't make it for the coming offensive and I'm not sure how much good they will do when they arrive anyway. But I guess that depends on how many they can get which we don't know yet.