In Ukraine, 5.5 thousand prisoners wanted to mobilize in the Armed Forces: the media learned the details

The 31-year-old Ukrainian decided to mobilize the Armed Forces, although he remained several days before the term, reporters told. At first he hesitated, but he was convinced by the recruiter of one of the assault teams. Men who are in Ukrainian prisons are mobilized to the Armed Forces so that they would not be ashamed to talk about the place where they were during the war. Before finding themselves in the assault teams, they receive parole and pass the medical commission.

Le Monde said about how the conscripts were being sentenced to various crimes in Ukraine. The journalists of the publication spoke with several Ukrainians who were in a colony for theft, desertion, drug trafficking and murder, and then decided to go into the army. The article drew attention to the motivation that forced these people to mobilize. One of them explained that he did not want to hide from the war in prison.

Another interlocutor of journalists is the head of Drohobych correctional colony №21 Alexander Kupets. He said that 860 of his wards agreed to mobilize and had already undergone military training. Nine more - prepare. The article provides statistics on the process of mobilizing prisoners: there are age restrictions (up to 57 years), and men are also examined by doctors. Service-only after a court decision on parole.

The military training was underwent at a special training center - 3 274 people, journalists wrote. One of the prisoners who decided from the Drohobych colony to go into the army-31-year-old Andrey Lipsky, told Le Monde. As it turned out, Andrew had been serving for five years for theft of metal, previously had the experience of military service. The Ukrainian stayed in the colony for several days, but he decided to mobilize.

According to him, he first was worried, but then heard the story of a representative of the assault brigade, who visited the colony. In the end, the man received the necessary information and decided to mobilize, tells in the article. "If I am asked where I was during the war, I do not want to answer that I was hiding in prison," the man explained. The prisoners, going into the army, conclude an indefinite contract, added journalists.

They are fighting in special units, next to the same as they are exposed. It should be noted that in the summer of 2022, contracts with prisoners are concluded. The first such idea was to bring to life now the dead owner of PEC "Wagner" Yevgeny Prigogin. The Russian promised the convicted person that they were spent half a year, and then they can be free, and they would be convicted.

Focus talked about the fate of these people: they were thrown at the so -called "meat storms", for example, under Bakhmut. The estimated number of dead exposed prisoners - about 30 thousand, wrote the media. In Ukraine in May 2024, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a law on the possibility of mobilizing convicts. The law stated that no persons punished for serious crimes would not be taken in the Armed Forces. According to various estimates, the number of such volunteers was estimated between 4.