Editing Russian Armed Forces (section)

===2018 beginning of formation of voluntary military reserve force===

In 2018, [[Russia]] started a full-scale formation of a [[military reserve force]] based upon [[Volunteer military|volunteers]] selected from among those who retired from [[active duty]].<ref name="izru13feb18" /> The Russian military reserve force ({{langx|ru|мобилизационный людской резерв}}) is a set of citizens who have signed a contract to perform military service as a reservist. They are appointed to a military position in a particular [[Military organization#Commands, formations, and units|military unit]]. They are involved in all operational, mobilization, and combat activities of these military units, unlike other citizens who haven't signed such contracts and who can be used for a mobilization deployment of armed forces on an involuntary basis only in cases stipulated by law ({{langx|ru|мобилизационный людской ресурс}}).<ref>{{cite web|last=Polunin|first=Sergey|date=25 December 2020|title=Положение о мобилизационном резерве Вооружённых Сил Российской Федерации и что это|language=ru|website=Militaryarms.ru|url=https://militaryarms.ru/sluzhba-v-armii/mobilizacionnyj-rezerv-vooruzhennyx-sil-rossijskoj-federacii/|access-date=11 September 2021|archive-date=28 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220228221059/https://militaryarms.ru/sluzhba-v-armii/mobilizacionnyj-rezerv-vooruzhennyx-sil-rossijskoj-federacii/|url-status=live}}</ref>

The deployment of [[Military organization#Commands, formations, and units|military units]] composed of reservists, takes minimum time and does not requires any retraining of [[military personnel]]. The military units composed of reservists use the same weapons as used by military units, composed of [[active duty]] military personnel. Military units staffed by [[Military reserve force|reservists]] are 100% manned up to wartime standards just like military units staffed by active duty military personnel only. There is no possibility to define by military units designation what we're dealing with - reserve or not reserve military unit. The number of reservists is not presented in open sources and is not among the number of active duty [[Volunteer military|military volunteers]] which is published by [[Ministry of Defence (Russia)|Ministry of Defence]]. This makes it difficult for establish real troop strength of new Russian military units and formations.
[[File:Мацква.ру, репортаж с Парада Победы 2023 на Красной площади, фото 7.jpg|thumb|Russian troops in May 2023]]