Killers and Satanist: The Russian Federation has recruited more than one hundred thousand prisoners to the war in Ukraine - the media
"Since the beginning of the war in February 2022, Russia has attracted more than 100,000 convicts from colonies for war in Ukraine," the message reads. Volodymyr Osechkin received a list of some of the prisoners of imprisoned from the Federal Sentence Service of the Russian Federation. The publication stressed that the number of prisoners recruited was also confirmed by the head of another group of prisoners in Russia.
Experts noted that the scale of recruitment of prisoners emphasizes the acute shortage of people faced by the Kremlin. In particular, among the prisoners, there are killers, a Satanist convicted of a ritual murder of four teenagers. According to Osiechkin, in 2022, the Wagner PEC recruited more than 4,9500 prisoners throughout the Russian Federation, while the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation hired more than 52 thousand. More than a thousand of them died in Ukraine every week.
The chairman of the Charity Organization of Russia Behind Bars Olga Romanova stated that about 120,000 prisoners were recruited in the Russian Federation. "Of these, 50000 were recruited by Prigogin (the founder of Wagner PEC" Yevgeny Prigogin, - ed. ). The rest were recruited by the Ministry of Defense. She said that about a thousand imprisoned women have now been recruited.
In general, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation hired convicted of the republics of national minorities of the country, in particular from Dagestan, Yakutia, Buryatia. According to Ukrainian journalist Viktor Kovalenko, the practice of recruiting for war in Ukraine shows that Russian President Vladimir Putin "thinks of his people as a disposable material in his imperial searches. " He stressed that the losses of invaders in the war are growing sharply.
"So, criminals from prison in his eyes are even more disposable. By sending them to death instead of mobilizing the young population, Putin wins time, hoping that victory over Ukraine will soon be in his hands," Kovalenko said.
Director of the International Security Research Department of the British Analytical Center for Defense and Security of the Royal Institute of Joint Services Neil Melvin stated that Putin was sending troops into battle and then involving new units to replace destroyed, relying on a large number of Russians and little in view of their life. We will remind, on December 4 in the media said that the Russian military began to flee from the army more often.