Tens of thousands of male convicts have been freed to fight in Ukraine. It is not clear if a small contingent of female volunteers released from a prison portends wider use of female soldiers.

Russia released a group of women from a prison in late May to join the fighting in Ukraine, according to two former inmates who maintain contact with those still there, potentially signaling a new phase in the Kremlin’s use of criminals in its war effort.

  • AwesomeLowlander
    7•23 days ago

    full knowledge of the shit they were about to be thrown into

    I mostly agree with you, but is there a single military in history that didn’t mostly rely on naive kids with zero knowledge of what they were getting themselves into?

    • FuglyDuckEnglish
      3•23 days ago

      Israel’s IDF relies on mandatory service. Turkish military, too. Russia.