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Russia Releases Female Prison Inmates to Join Ukraine War (www.nytimes.com)
submitted 1 year ago by tal@lemmy.today to c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz
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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.

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It does also suggest to me that Russia may have exhausted the pool of male prisoners willing to enlist for a pardon.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They have been chewing through soldiers at a relentlessly steady pace for two years at this point. They started with a famously large army but it would be surprising if any supply of available recruits hadn't been exhausted and then some by now.