• 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.one
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      5 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.

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        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.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Russia is recruiting female convicts to bolster its war effort in Ukraine, the Kyiv Post reported, citing a Ukrainian intelligence spokesperson.

    The practice of offering convicts freedom in exchange for military service in Ukraine began under Yevgeny Prigozhin, the late founder of the mercenary Wagner Group.

    Dmitry Peskov, a spokesperson for Russian President Vladimir Putin, has defended Russia’s use of prisoners in the war, saying that they “atone with blood for crimes on the battlefield, in assault brigades, under bullets, under shells.”

    In January, the UK Ministry of Defence reported that Russia was on course to lose 500,000 troops by the end of 2024 after turning its forces into a “low quality, high quantity mass army.”

    When a missile hits a house, it doesn’t care if there are women, men, children - everyone dies," Sniper Evgenya Emerald told the BBC.

    Ukraine’s defense ministry opened up more combat positions to women in 2016 and again in 2018, meaning they could serve in roles such as infantry or snipers, CNBC previously reported.


    The original article contains 425 words, the summary contains 170 words. Saved 60%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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    Shouldn’t every Russian “soldier” or “military personnel” be defecting by the millions to Ukraine ? I mean if the Ukraine-Russia War finally resolves, either Ukraine will be a EU AND NATO Member !!! Or Russia will shrink politically and economically ( military likely the first to get thrown under the bus if Russia loses) even a Russian victory now will be a extremely pyrrhic lose-lose situation further isolating Russia.

    I cant imagine if Russia sends WOMEN to the front-lines in ANY capacity. Women will seek to surrender to Ukrainian forces and Russia will start to decline by population. You cannot create an Army without women participating. If you remove even 5% of Russian women, the war will be lost before you fire bullets.

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      5 months ago

      They have families in Russia. And the state have plenty of windows with their names already written on it, just in case.