Putin Wants Almost 1 Million Russian Policemen By 2025KEY POINTS- Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a new decree increasing the number of police officers in the next three years- Putin already increased the number of staff under the Ministry of Internal Affairs in September- Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev said they need 52,000 new police officers in occupied Ukrainian areas by 2026Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree increasing the number of police officers under his country's Ministry of Internal Affairs to almost 1 million by 2025.Abbas Gallyamov, a political scientist and Putin's former speechwriter, said the Russian president knows that a prolonged war and another round of mobilization would not get support from the public.Gallyamov said the Kremlin hopes that the winter conditions would reduce clashes on the battlefield and turn the conflict into a war of attrition.Stoltenberg said Russia wants to regroup its troops and repair its equipment before trying to launch a more significant offensive against Ukraine."What we see now is that Russia is actually attempting to try to have some kind of freeze of this war, at least for a short period of time, so they can regroup, repair, recover and then try to launch a bigger offensive next spring," Stoltenberg said, as per DW News."