Russian President Vladimir Putin has increased the size of the country’s military for the third time since the February 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine by boosting the overall number to 2.389 million, according to a presidential decree issued on Monday. The number of soldiers is to rise to 1.5 million, the decree said. In December, Putin raised the military’s target strength to 2.2 million, with 1.33 million of them being soldiers. The new target raises the number in the military by 50% compared with a little over 1 million at the start of the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in Fe…