The late founder of the mercenary Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, had started the practice of recruiting convicts for the war in Ukraine.
  • Russia is recruiting female convicts to boost its military forces, a Ukrainian intelligence spokesperson said.
  • Moscow wants to recruit the convicts to auxiliary and combat roles, the Kyiv Post reported.
  • More than 100,000 convicts from Russian penal colonies have reportedly been conscripted to fight in Ukraine.
  • MushuChupacabraEnglish
    27•7 months ago

    This is the sort of thing you do when everything is going just great in the war that you started.

      • MushuChupacabraEnglish
        18•7 months ago

        You press your women into service, when you’re winning yep. Surely a sign that things are going well on the front.

        yep

      • ArxCyberwolfEnglish
        11•7 months ago

        Nice 8 hour old account. Probably made just to stir shit up, eh?

      • @MaggotyEnglish
        4•7 months ago

        Ukraine can absolutely lay down 10 to 1 casualty ratios and still lose. The population and industrial disparity is pretty big.