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.
  • maynarkhEnglish
    1·
    5 months ago

    I don’t see them hating Putin for the same reasons you, or I would. They would hate Putin because he lost.

    • exanime@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      I hope I am right and you are wrong… but as I type this reply, my conviction has almost entirely dissipated :-(

      • maynarkhEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        At least we share in where our hopes lie, friend