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WATCH: Inmates to soldiers, Ukraine's mobilization of prisoners
Euronews via Yahoo News Singapore· 1 week agoFor the first time, inmates from prisons and penal colonies are included. Under a new law, inmates...
Ukraine's convicts offered release at a high price: Joining the fight against Russia
Associated Press via Yahoo News Singapore· 1 week agoAt a rural penal colony in southeast Ukraine, several convicts stand assembled under barbed wire to...
From prison to the trenches: Inside Ukraine’s attempt to turn inmates into soldiers
CNN via Yahoo News Singapore· 4 weeks agoUkraine is struggling to replenish its depleted military ranks. A new law means commanders can now...
Kremlin Recruiting Female Inmates for Assault Squads
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News Singapore· 3 months agoReutersThe Russian military has been recruiting women from prisons to join assault teams for the war against Ukraine, according to a new report.The...
Russian rebels aim to embarrass Putin with cross-border attacks during presidential election
Business Insider via Yahoo News Singapore· 4 months agoA photo shows what the Russian Defence Ministry says is a destroyed tank of Ukraine-based armed...
Russian assault forces varied wildly in the battle for Avdiivka, from well-trained to 'just...
Business Insider via Yahoo News Singapore· 4 months agoRussian paratroopers march during the military parade at the 76th Guards Air Assault Division in...
Russia sent a unit of Ukrainian POWs into battle against their own countrymen, analysts say
Business Insider via Yahoo News Singapore· 6 months agoA photograph taken on June 23, 2022 shows a strict-regime penal colony IK-6 near the village of...
2 Russians convicted of murdering and eating victims have been released after fighting in Ukraine:...
INSIDER via Yahoo News Singapore· 7 months agoRussian servicemen patrolling the destroyed part of the Ilyich Iron and Steel Works in Ukraine's...
Russia parades Ukrainian war prisoners as ‘volunteers’ for its army in apparent violation of...
CNN via Yahoo News Singapore· 8 months agoA group of former Ukrainian servicemen, including prisoners of war, have “volunteered” to fight on the front lines for Russia, Moscow’s state-run news agency RIA Novosti has claimed, in a potential violation of international law.
Russia ‘forcing Ukrainian POWs to fight against their homeland’ in possible war crime
The Independent via Yahoo News Singapore· 8 months agoRussia is deploying Ukrainian prisoners of war to fight on its behalf against their own country,...