US Politics | Ukraine news LIVE: Vladimir Putin ‘expanding his army to ONE MILLION troops’ as despot’s war undermined by 50,000 deaths

VLADIMIR Putin is expanding his troops to ...ONE MILLION... says Russian media, as his humiliated army sees growing frontline deaths. Kyiv officials say a Russian missile attack killed 22 civilians and set a passenger train on fire in eastern Ukraine and north of the capital as Ukraine marked its Independence Day under heavy shelling. It was seen as an act of ...repugnant provocation... amid Vladimir Putin seeing deaths pass 50,000 this week, as his army takes a battering on the frontline of the Ukraine war. But Russian state news agency RIA claims the mad tyrant has signed a decree to bolster his faltering army. A document posted on the portal of legal information says: ...To establish the staff strength of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the amount of 2,039,758 units, including 1,150,628 military personnel.... Read our Ukraine-Russia blog below for the latest updates...