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.

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.

  • tal@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
    28·
    5 months ago

    It does also suggest to me that Russia may have exhausted the pool of male prisoners willing to enlist for a pardon.

    • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
      6·
      5 months ago

      They have been chewing through soldiers at a relentlessly steady pace for two years at this point. They started with a famously large army but it would be surprising if any supply of available recruits hadn’t been exhausted and then some by now.