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Related: About this forumRussia is Recruiting Female Prisoners for War Against Ukraine - UATV English
The Russian Defense Ministry continues to recruit female prisoners for the war against Ukraine. The prisoners are promised pardon at the end of a six-month contract. However, as soon as they get recruited they realise that the contract is indefinite. Experts are convinced that the Kremlin is recruiting women for meat assaults. How Putin plans to use convicted women as cannon fodder for his war against Ukraine - watch in our news story.
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Russia is Recruiting Female Prisoners for War Against Ukraine - UATV English (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Apr 2024
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Lovie777
(15,428 posts)1. They are running out of men?..........................
my understanding that Ukraine has roughly 40-50 thousand women serving.
Russia will send them in not trained too well, the meat grinder continues. No wonder Russia's birth rate is down.
OnDoutside
(20,673 posts)2. Possibly coming to the end of available expendable males
before reaching for the Moscow working class males.
Mr. Evil
(3,000 posts)3. If I were those Russian women,
I'd accept the deal and as soon as possible, hightail it to Ukraine and give myself up.