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.

Russia released a group of women from a prison in late May to join the fighting in Ukraine, according to two former inmates who maintain contact with those still there, potentially signaling a new phase in the Kremlin’s use of criminals in its war effort.

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
    191·
    6 months ago

    I wonder if it will reach a certain point that the Russian people tire of being used as fodder for Putin’s meat grinder.

    • girlfreddy
      19·
      6 months ago

      That will happen when he starts targetting middle class families, and not before.

      • Scubus@sh.itjust.works
        9·
        6 months ago

        I mean, by that point, the entire lower class is gone. Which makes middle class the new lower class. Things won’t change until he starts targeting oligarchs or their families.