Ukraine's Defense Ministry and a Russian prisons watchdog group said Vladimir Putin's military has been using female convicts.
died on Saturday in what some have said may have been the deadliest day for Russia since the war began more than a year ago.
Meanwhile, various Western officials and analysts have estimated that around 200,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded during the war. Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen in a meeting at the Kremlin on March 9. The inset shows Ukrainian artillerymen firing a cannon on September 15, 2022. Putin’s military has recruited female prisoners for its war efforts in Ukraine, according to new reports."Against the background of large losses of personnel in the war, the enemy uses alternative sources of replenishment of manpower," Ukraine's Defense Ministry.
The use of prison inmates by Russia has been documented for several months before the latest report on the use of female convicts. The
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