Russia faces a "critical" shortage of police officers, with as many as 5,000 law enforcement employees leaving their jobs in July, an official said on Thursday. "The personnel shortage is very large. I would even call it critical," Russia's Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev was quoted as saying by state-run news agency Interfax at an internal ministry meeting. "We've had 5,000 employees resign from internal affairs agencies in the last month. It's a difficult situation." Under a decree signed into law by Russian President Vladimir Putin in December 2022, the number of police officers in the country is to increase to...