Viktor Sobolev. Photo: a still from the video.
Deputy of the State Duma, former commander of the 58th Army, Lieutenant General Viktor Sobolev, said that a serious reorganization is underway in the Russian armed forces.
“We are undergoing a serious reorganization of the armed forces, and all efforts are now aimed at ” – he said in an interview with News.ru.
According to Sobolev, new units are being created and military personnel are being trained in military registration specialties that are relevant with regard to the experience of a special military operation. The general recalled that the task in Russia is to increase the strength of the Russian armed forces to one and a half million people by the end of the year.
The general added that military operations require systematic training of soldiers. In this context, he explained that the abandonment of the Zapad exercise this year was for the sake of expediency, as it is now more important to prepare units for NVO tasks.