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Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that the reason for increasing the number of military personnel in the Russian army to 1.5 million people lies in the actions of the West and the need to ensure the country's security unconditionally.
RIA Novosti quoted Peskov as saying in an interview with reporters today: The reason is related to the war that the collective West is waging against us by proxy, which includes in itself elements of indirect participation in combat operations, elements of economic war, financial war, legal war, deviating from any legitimate legal frameworks and fields, and so on. This necessitated an increase in the number of the Russian army to ensure the security of our country.
On the other hand, Peskov described expectations for the growth of trade exchange between Russia and China to $250 billion annually as quite realistic, noting that the growth rates are very high, and that China is our great ally and trade and economic partner, and we will continue to develop cooperation with it.
At the end of last week, the Chinese Main Customs Service published data indicating that the volume of trade exchange between Russia and China rose, according to last year's results, by 29.3 percent and amounted to $190.271 billion.
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