On December 21, 2022, an expanded meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation was held in Moscow at the National Defense Management Center of the Russian Federation under the leadership of President - Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, during which the results of the activities of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in 2022 were summed up and tasks for the next period were defined. The Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, General of the Army Sergei Shoigu, made a report at an expanded meeting of the Board.
(c) The Press Service of the President of RussiaComrade Commander-in-Chief!
I will start my report with a special military operation.
Today, in Ukraine, Russian servicemen are being opposed by the combined forces of the West.
The United States and its allies are pumping the Kiev regime with weapons, training military personnel, providing intelligence information, sending advisers and mercenaries, and waging an information and sanctions war against us.
The Ukrainian leadership resorts to prohibited methods of confrontation, including terrorist attacks and contract killings, shelling civilians with heavy weapons. Western countries try not to notice all this, as well as elements of nuclear blackmail, for example, provocations against the Zaporozhye NPP and scenarios for the preparation of the so-called dirty nuclear bomb.
It is clear that the current situation is beneficial primarily to the United States, which seeks to use it to maintain global dominance and weaken other countries, including its allies in Europe.
Of particular concern is the buildup of NATO's forward presence near the borders of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus, as well as the West's desire to prolong military operations in Ukraine as much as possible in order to weaken our country.
After the revelations of Mrs. Merkel, Poroshenko and other politicians about the true goals of the Minsk agreements, it became obvious to everyone that Russia was not the source of the conflict in Ukraine. The reason is the Western-funded coup in Kiev in 2014, which brought anti-Russian forces to power and divided fraternal peoples. This provoked an armed confrontation in the Donbas.
We are working to save the population from genocide and terror. Russia is always open to constructive peace talks.
Russian troops continue to destroy military targets, inflict massive precision strikes on the military command system, enterprises of the military-industrial complex and related facilities, including energy. The supply chain of foreign weapons is being destroyed, the military potential of Ukraine is being crushed.
At the same time, exhaustive measures are being taken to exclude the death of the civilian population.
As a result, the armed forces of Ukraine suffered significant losses. A significant part of the weapons and equipment available at the beginning of the operation has been destroyed.
To make up for the losses, the United States and NATO countries have significantly increased military assistance to the Kiev regime. 27 countries have already spent 97 billion dollars on arms supplies to Ukraine, which is much more than the Americans abandoned in Afghanistan. Some of it is in the hands of terrorists and is spreading all over the world. It is unknown in whose hands the weapons from Ukraine will be tomorrow.
It should be noted that NATO staff officers, gunners and other specialists are in the combat zone.
More than 500 US and NATO spacecraft are operating in the interests of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, of which over 70 are military, the rest are dual-use.
The United States and its allies spend considerable funds on providing information and psychological impact on Russia and our allies. We fully understood what the supposedly "free Western press" is. Every day, thousands of fakes about the events in Ukraine are published according to the same templates by a team from Washington. Hundreds of television agencies, tens of thousands of print publications, media resources in social networks and messengers work for this.
The total silence of the Western media about the war crimes of the Ukrainian military looks like the height of cynicism. At the same time, the Kiev criminal regime and neo-Nazis are being glorified. The terrorist methods of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are presented as legitimate self-defense or are issued for the actions of Russian units. Ukrainian nationalists took on the role of detachments. Every day we receive data on the executions of AFU servicemen who evade combat missions.
In order to stabilize the situation, protect new territories and carry out further offensive actions, it was necessary to increase the combat and numerical strength of our troops' groups.
For these purposes, a partial mobilization was carried out. It has become a criterion for the maturity of Russian society, a serious test for the country and the Armed Forces.
Mobilization plans have not been put into effect since the Great Patriotic War. The system of mobilization training itself was not fully adapted to the new economic relations.
Therefore, with the beginning of partial mobilization, we faced difficulties in notifying and conscripting citizens who are in reserve.
All the shortcomings had to be corrected on the go. In the shortest possible time, changes were made to the organizational and staff structures of military command bodies, formations and units.
Urgent measures were taken to improve all types of security.
Partial mobilization measures were carried out in a timely manner and in full. 300 thousand citizens who are in reserve have been called up for military service.
An important role in this was played by the consolidated work of federal and regional state authorities.
I would especially like to note the active civic position of Russians. Without waiting for summonses, more than 20 thousand people joined the troops as volunteers.
In order to maintain the country's economy, more than 830 thousand citizens working at enterprises of the military-industrial complex and in a number of other socially significant areas that ensure the vital activity of the state have been released from conscription.
Thanks to the decisions taken by the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, mobilized citizens received the same benefits and guarantees as military personnel under contract.
With the mobilized servicemen, training for combat operations is organized - from practicing individual skills to combat coordination as part of units.
A huge burden fell on the military-political bodies. This confirmed the correctness of the decision taken in 2018 to create them. At the same time, much remains to be done to ensure that they fully ensure the readiness of personnel to perform combat missions.
In general, partial mobilization made it possible to increase the combat capabilities of the troops and intensify hostilities.
The troops liberated a territory 5 times larger than that occupied by the Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics until February 24.
At the end of May, the large industrial center of Mariupol was completely cleared of Nazis by Russian troops. The city was turned by the Kiev regime into a powerful fortified area, the core of which was the industrial zone of the Azovstal plant.
As a result of the successful actions of the units of the Russian Armed Forces and the Donetsk People's Militia, more than 4 thousand militants were destroyed, two and a half thousand (2,439) Azov nationalists and AFU servicemen laid down their arms and surrendered.
Peaceful life is improving.
Today, the ports in Berdyansk and Mariupol are fully functioning. We plan to deploy support vessels, emergency rescue services and ship repair units of the Navy in them.
The Sea of Azov has once again become the inland sea of Russia, as it has been for three hundred years of our country's history.
Overland communication with Crimea by rail and road has been resumed.
Railway traffic with Donbass is being restored.
Cargo has been delivered to Mariupol, Berdyansk and other liberated settlements for several months.
The establishment of control over the North Crimean Canal made it possible to restore the water supply of the Crimean Peninsula, which had been absent for 8 years due to the water and energy blockade.
Russian servicemen during a special military operation show bravery, perseverance and dedication.
Over 100 thousand people were awarded state awards, 120 of them were awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.
During the special operation, more than 250 thousand regular military personnel received combat experience.
Today, the Russian Armed Forces are actively involved in establishing peaceful life in the liberated territories. More than 27 thousand hectares of territory have been cleared.
In Mariupol, military builders built 12 residential buildings. The construction of six more houses, a kindergarten and a school continues.
In Luhansk and Mariupol, two multifunctional medical centers with the most modern equipment with a capacity of 260 beds were built in record time.
A lot of work is being done to restore the water supply of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics. Water pipelines with a total length of more than 200 km have been built. They provided water to over 1 million 500 thousand people. The construction of a water pipeline from the Don River with a length of 194 kilometers is underway, which is guaranteed to provide water supply to Donetsk.
In general, the special military operation demonstrated the high professionalism of commanders, commanders, headquarters of all levels of management, as well as the readiness of military personnel to perform the most difficult combat tasks.
Our samples of weapons and military equipment have confirmed exceptional reliability and efficiency.
A special military operation provides a unique opportunity to analyze modern methods of conducting interspecific operations, the forces and means used in this case to be taken into account in the plans for improving the Armed Forces.
The leadership of the country and the Armed Forces have received unprecedented support from Russian citizens. This clearly shows the unity of the army and society.
This year, the Ministry of Defense has solved and continues to solve a number of other important tasks.
At the beginning of the year, together with the CSTO countries, they conducted an operation to stabilize the situation in Kazakhstan. They did not allow a color revolution in this country.
Russian groups of troops remain the main guarantor of peace in Syria and Nagorno-Karabakh. During the year, we carried out humanitarian actions, mine clearance, and provided medical assistance to the population.
Our nuclear triad is maintained at a level that allows for guaranteed strategic deterrence.
The high combat readiness of strategic nuclear forces is ensured by an unprecedented level of modernity, brought to 91.3%.
The Strategic Missile Forces has completed the re-equipment of two missile regiments to the Yars mobile ground-based missile system.
Another missile regiment, equipped with the Avangard missile system with a hypersonic gliding cruise unit, has taken up combat duty.
Successful launches of a new heavy-class rocket of the Sarmat missile complex during state tests allowed us to begin work on its deployment.
Aviation strategic nuclear forces were replenished with the Tu-160m strategic missile carrier and the Tu-95ms aircraft.
73 air patrols have been conducted this year, two of them jointly with the People's Liberation Army of China.
Nuclear-powered missile submarine cruisers carry out scheduled combat service in designated areas of the World Ocean.
Another nuclear submarine of the Borei-A project, Generalissimo Suvorov, armed with Bulava ballistic missiles, has been accepted into the Navy.
The combat capabilities of the types and branches of the Armed Forces have continued to increase.
A unified space system has been further developed in the Aerospace Forces. The sixth Dome spacecraft has been launched, which allows continuous monitoring of missile-hazardous areas in the Northern Hemisphere.
Educational aviation is developing systematically. The flight of cadets due to the arrival of new models of training aircraft has been increased by more than a third.
This year, the first graduation of female military pilots took place. More than half of the graduates completed their studies with honors.
The Navy received the most modern submarine, six surface ships, three combat boats, 11 vessels and support boats, as well as two coastal missile systems.
Serial deliveries of the sea-based hypersonic missile "Zircon" have begun. The final stage is the preparation of the frigate "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov" with hypersonic missiles on board for combat service in an unplanned area of the World Ocean.
The most important feature of the implementation of the state defense order of 2022 was the provision of weapons and equipment to groups of troops solving tasks in a special military operation. To increase their combat capabilities, the transfer of supplies of the most popular samples from 2024-2025 to 2023 has been carried out.
In order to optimize the supply of weapons, a sub-decade schedule has been formed. Control over its execution is carried out by a joint task force of the Ministry of Defense, the Military-Industrial Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Trade and defense industry organizations.
The volume of financial resources envisaged in 2022, taking into account the additional supply of weapons and equipment, made it possible to increase the number of basic samples sent to the troops by 30%, ammunition for rocket and artillery weapons and aviation weapons of destruction - from 69 to 109%.
At the same time, the level of fulfillment of the tasks of the State Budget for the main samples was 91%.
In 2022, all planned operational and combat training activities have been completed, including 14 international exercises of various levels.
At the beginning of the year, a series of large-scale naval exercises were held, during which the tasks of countering military threats to Russia from sea and ocean directions were worked out.
The final event of the combat service was the strategic command and staff exercise "Vostok-2022".
More than 51 thousand servicemen participated in it, including from the armed forces of 14 foreign countries. A feature of the exercise was the creation of an international grouping of troops to solve joint tasks.
The exercise demonstrated the ability of the created interspecific groups to effectively perform tasks to ensure regional security.
During a special exercise, the strategic nuclear forces successfully fulfilled the tasks of delivering a massive nuclear strike in response to the use of weapons of mass destruction by the enemy.
An Arctic expedition was conducted in the eastern sector of the Arctic and on the Chukotka peninsula. A complex of training and combat activities, research and experiments was carried out. All samples of weapons have confirmed their technical characteristics in Arctic conditions.
Despite the attempts of the collective West to isolate Russia, we continue to expand the geography of international military and military-technical cooperation.
The Ministry of Defense is developing relations with the armed forces of 109 countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.
350 significant international events have been held this year.
The International Army Games have become one of the main events of joint training with the armies of foreign countries. More than five thousand three hundred servicemen from 34 countries participated in the games. The Games, held in 12 countries, were visited by over three million people.
Over the eight years of the Games, 80 training grounds have been modernized, the educational and material base of which is actively used for combat training of units.
The annual ARMY Forum contributed to the strengthening of international military-technical cooperation. It was attended by delegations of 85 foreign countries, and the number of visitors amounted to almost two million people.
The forum concluded 36 state contracts with defense industry enterprises totaling more than 525 billion rubles.
The Forum is an effective and dynamically developing project, which significantly surpasses similar leading world exhibition venues in terms of its indicators.
In August, the Tenth Moscow Conference on International Security was held, which was attended by more than 700 delegates from 70 countries. This is the largest military-political event in the world in terms of the number of participants.
The I-th International Anti-Fascist Congress was held this year. It was attended by state and public figures, veterans of the Great Patriotic War, nine delegations of foreign states and military attaches of 26 countries. The forum participants unequivocally condemned any manifestations of fascism, neo-Nazism and chauvinism in the modern world.
The Congress is planned to be held annually.
Our higher military school is one of the best in the world. Students and cadets from 55 countries study at the universities of the Ministry of Defense, which exceeds the indicators of the Soviet era.
From September 1, 2023, the network of educational institutions of the Armed Forces will be replenished by the Donetsk Higher Military Combined Arms Command School.
The development of the network of pre-university educational organizations of the Ministry of Defense continues.
By September 1 next year, we will open a new Suvorov military school in Irkutsk.
Together with the authorities, work has been organized to create a Federal agency for Work with Veterans. This will make it possible to centralize and make more effective the system of social protection of military veterans.
Thank you, dear Vladimir Vladimirovich, for supporting this initiative.
Housing conditions have been solved for 49 thousand military families, and 100 thousand people receive compensation for renting housing.
We pay great attention to the development of military medicine.
Thanks to the ongoing therapeutic and preventive measures, the overall incidence in the Armed Forces has decreased by 1.5 times over 10 years.
The number of military medical organizations providing high-tech medical care has been tripled, and the range of services they provide has doubled. The number of patients who received this type of care amounted to more than 28 thousand people.
Military medics especially proved themselves during a special military operation. First aid is provided within 10 minutes. The wounded get to medical units within 1 hour, and to military hospitals - within the first day.
We achieved low mortality at the stages of evacuation of the wounded. In the hospital link, the mortality rate was less than half a percent.
This is the lowest figure in the history of military medicine.
In accordance with your instructions, the implementation of the military healthcare modernization program for the period up to 2027 has begun.
A new modern military hospital with 150 beds has been opened in Kazan. 9 new military hospitals are being built in Ryazan, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Bryansk, Kursk, Belgorod, Kaspiysk, Sevastopol, Mirny and Vladikavkaz.
The construction of a wellness and treatment center has been completed at a unique balneological resort in Kamchatka.
The Ministry of Defense has organized a systematic fight against the new coronavirus infection. During the sixth wave, an outbreak of morbidity was not allowed.
As for the military construction complex.
All plans have been completed, more than 3 thousand buildings and structures have been built.
The main attention is paid to the development of infrastructure for strategic nuclear forces. This year 650 high-tech facilities have been built for them, including for the deployment of Avangard, Yars and Sarmat missile systems.
The Northern Fleet commissioned the facilities of the coastal energy and social infrastructure in Gadzhievo.
A berthing front with a length of 1,154 meters has been commissioned at the base of the Caspian Flotilla, and the construction of another berth has been completed.
As part of the development of the Armed Forces aviation basing system, infrastructure facilities were reconstructed at 15 airfields to receive all modern models of aviation equipment.
The arrangement of military camps was carried out as planned. The construction of 625 buildings and structures of the park and barracks-housing zones has been completed.
In accordance with your instructions, the units of the railway troops continue the reconstruction of the BAM on the Ulak - Fevralsk section with a length of 339 kilometers.
About 3 million cubic meters of earthworks have already been completed, which is more than half of the planned indicators.
The Ministry of Defense has implemented major patriotic and cultural projects.
Military parades were held in 28 cities. Traditionally, the Main Naval Parade took place.
In accordance with your instructions, the Saur-Grave memorial complex, a landmark for the whole country, has been restored in 90 days. The Eternal Flame is burning again on the mound.
Systematic work on military-patriotic education of young people has been continued. Its core is the UNARMIA movement, which has already covered all regions of Russia and united more than 1 million 251 thousand children and adolescents.
In cooperation with the authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, work continued on the development of the network of educational and methodological centers for military-patriotic education of young people "Avangard". In 2022, 20 regional centers will be opened and 25 in cities with a population of over 100 thousand people.
In total, more than 150 thousand high school students have been trained in 88 Avangard centers.
We believe that the creation of such centers should become the basis of initial military training and the system of military-patriotic education of young people in the country.
Comrade Commander-in-Chief! In general, all the tasks set for 2022 have been completed by the Armed Forces. Their combat capabilities have increased by more than 13%. A given level of maintaining the country's defense capability has been provided.
Measures to strengthen the security of the Russian Federation
Given the desire of NATO to increase its military potential near the Russian borders, as well as to expand the North Atlantic Alliance at the expense of Finland and Sweden, retaliatory measures are required to create an appropriate grouping of troops in the north-west of Russia.
When recruiting the Armed Forces, gradually increase the age of conscription of citizens from 18 to 21 years, and raise the limit to 30 years. To provide an opportunity, at the request of citizens, to enroll in military service under a contract from the first day of joining the service.
To create two interspecific strategic territorial associations of the Armed Forces - the Moscow and Leningrad military districts.
To continue improving the composition and structure of the Armed Forces, to increase the responsibility of the main commands for the preparation and use of associations and formations.
To form three motorized rifle divisions, including as part of combined arms associations in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, as well as an army corps in Karelia.
Reorganize seven motorized rifle brigades into motorized rifle divisions in the Western, Central, Eastern Military Districts and in the Northern Fleet.
In the Airborne Troops, it is necessary to additionally form two airborne assault divisions.
For each combined arms (tank) army to contain a mixed aviation division and a brigade of army aviation, numbering 80-100 combat helicopters.
In addition, three aviation divisions, eight bomber aviation regiments, one fighter aviation regiment, and six army aviation brigades should be additionally formed.
To create an artillery reserve in strategic areas, form five artillery divisions of military districts, as well as large-capacity artillery brigades.
In the coastal forces of the Navy, five marine divisions should be formed on the basis of existing marine brigades.
In order to guarantee the solution of the tasks of ensuring the military security of the Russian Federation, it is necessary to increase the number of Armed Forces to one and a half million servicemen, including contract servicemen - up to 695 thousand people.
The transition to outsourcing in 2008 - 2012 led to the practical destruction of military repair bodies, which negatively affected the serviceability of weapons and equipment. Since 2012, measures have been taken to recreate them. The special military operation showed the need for further expansion of repair and restoration bodies in the troops.
Next year, three repair plants will be formed and repair units in the military unit will be strengthened.
To introduce federal state civil service in military commissariats with an increase in the number of military posts in them.
Complete the digital transformation of military enlistment offices.
Comrade Commander-in-Chief!
With your consent, the approaches outlined will be included in the plans for the development of the Armed Forces in the prescribed manner.
Priorities for 2023
Continue conducting a special military operation until the tasks are fully completed.
Russian groups of troops and forces should ensure the preservation of peace and stability in Nagorno-Karabakh and Syria.
To fully implement a set of operational and combat training measures with an emphasis on the threats associated with the further expansion of NATO to the East.
Prepare and conduct maneuvers of troops (forces) "West-2023".
To put 22 launchers with intercontinental ballistic missiles "Yars", "Avangard" and "Sarmat" on combat duty in the Strategic Missile Forces.
To accept three Tu-160m strategic missile carriers into the aviation strategic nuclear forces.
To take into the fleet the nuclear submarine of the Borei-A project "Emperor Alexander III", as well as four submarines and 12 surface ships.
To increase the supply of high-precision hypersonic missile systems "Dagger" and "Zircon". Continue working on other promising samples.
To increase the number of military personnel under the contract, taking into account the replacement of mobilized citizens in the groups of troops and the recruitment of new formations by the end of the year to 521 thousand people.
Comrade Commander-in-Chief!
In accordance with your instructions, the course for the progressive development of the Armed Forces and increasing their combat capabilities will be continued next year.
We will discuss the results of our activities in detail during the closed part of the Board meeting.
The report is finished.
