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UK Says It's Likely That New Russian Ground Corps Leans Heavily On 'Volunteers'

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UK Says It's Likely That New Russian Ground Corps Leans Heavily On 'Volunteers'

Britain says Russia has “almost certainly established a major new ground forces formation” that could include “volunteer” battalions to support its Ukrainian invasion. The emergence of a significantly volunteer-style corps would underscore the challenges that face Russian President Vladimir Putin and his war planners as they try to subdue Russia's much smaller fellow post-Soviet republic. British Defense Intelligence on August 10 described the new formation as the “3rd Army Corps” (3 AC) and said it was based out of Mulino, in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast east of Moscow.
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