www.zerohedge.com BY TYLER DURDEN
Despite for much of last week seeking to downplay Washington’s rhetoric of an “imminent” Russian invasion, given the panic it unleashed among the Ukrainian population, President Volodymyr Zelensky is now seeking to greatly expand his army, also a moment Kiev is using the opportunity to gain more US weaponry and money.
On Tuesday Zelensky signed a decree to increase the total size of the armed forces by 100,000 troops, and ordered a pay increase across the ranks over the next three years. Ironically he still sought to calm fears of a Russian military invasion, saying the decision is “not because we will soon have a war… but so that soon and in the future there will be peace in Ukraine.”
While Russia’s armed forces are commonly estimated at just under one million, Ukraine’s military is made up of about 250,000.
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