Due to the significant losses suffered by the occupiers in the battles on the hot front, the command of the Russian army replenishes its ranks with convicts.

Not only men are recruited.

This was announced on Saturday, February 4, at the evening meeting of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

"In order to make up for the loss of manpower, the enemy is trying to attract convicted women to participate in the hostilities," the report says. 

The General Staff of the Armed Forces specified that during the week the occupiers recruited about 50 people from the women's correctional colony in the city of Snizhne in the temporarily occupied territory of the Donetsk region.

According to the Ukrainian military, recruits of the Russian army have been sent to the territory of the Russian Federation for military training.

We will remind you that Russia also recruits imprisoned citizens of Ukraine who were forcibly taken to Russian prisons.

According to the General Staff, people who are serving sentences for serious criminal offenses are most actively called to participate in the war against Ukraine.

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