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This is in line with their formation of two new military districts, announced two weeks ago ago.
[Regnum] As part of increasing combat capabilities in the Russian Armed Forces, two armies, 14 divisions and 16 brigades will be formed by the end of the year, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced on March 20 at a meeting of the department’s board.
“By the end of the year, it is planned to form two combined arms armies and thirty formations, including fourteen divisions and sixteen brigades,” he said.
The head of the Ministry of Defense added that in accordance with the decision of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, the progressive development of the Armed Forces and the increase in their combat capabilities continues. Thus, they formed an army corps, a motorized rifle division, the Dnieper River Flotilla and a brigade of river boats of the flotilla.
As Regnum news agency reported on March 20, Shoigu said that the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces since the beginning of 2024 amounted to more than 71,000 people and 11 thousand weapons. This is almost three times higher than the same period of the previous year.
Since the beginning of 2024, the Russian Armed Forces have destroyed four Abrams and five Leopard tanks, 27 Bradley vehicles, six HIMARS launchers and 11 launchers of anti-aircraft missile systems, including five Patriots, in the Northern Military District zone.
Shoigu also said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 3,500 soldiers trying to capture border settlements in the Belgorod and Kursk regions.
Related, from regnum.ru
Zakharova announced NATO plans to open a second front against Russia in Transcaucasia
The North Atlantic Alliance sets a maximum goal, namely to open a second front against Russia in Transcaucasia. Official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova stated this at a briefing on March 20.
“There is a maximum task, namely to open a second front in Transcaucasia against our country and, in general, set the region on fire again,” the diplomat said.
Zakharova added in this regard that NATO was not satisfied with Russian policy aimed at pacifying the region. Those agreements that were reached through the mediation of Moscow literally worked as a red rag for the West, because it was the road to peace, she noted.
As Regnum reported, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg visited Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia from March 17 to 19. In Baku on March 17, he met with President Ilham Aliyev, and on March 18 he held negotiations with the heads of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defense of the republic. On March 18, Stoltenberg and the head of the Georgian government, Irakli Kobakhidze, discussed the issue of integrating the republic into the alliance in Tbilisi.
Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said on March 19 that NATO’s desire to expand influence in the Caucasus will not add stability to the region.
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