For the fourth time since ordering the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Putin has expanded his protective service’s central staff

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Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree raising the Federal Protective Service's central-office staff from 785 to 812 employees, effective July 1, according to Kommersant. No reason was given for the increase.

It is the fourth such expansion since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, following bumps from 725 to 760 in late 2022, to 775 in 2024, and to 785 in 2025. Before the invasion, the office's staffing had been unchanged since 2010.

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A security detail that keeps needing more security detail every year the war grinds on is not exactly a subtle data point, even if the decree declines to explain itself. The Kremlin doesn't publish memoirs, but its org chart is talking anyway.

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