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.
    • @ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
      17•8 months ago

      I was told Russia was going to protect us from all that wokeness. The Russian Army was strong because it didn’t bow down to wokeness like America.

      • @ours@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4•8 months ago

        I had an idiot tell me he would move to Russia to escape the wokeness (not going to happen).

        I wished him luck, I sure wasn’t going to follow and I hope he likes being sent to the front as cannon fodder. Putin barely cares about Russians so a foreign Slavic Muslim is certainly going to get treated amazingly I’m sure. But I don’t mind conservatives leaving.