💬 “Female prisoners are one of the most marginalised communities in Russia, so it was just a matter of time before they would be forced to participate in the war” Russia has begun sending female prisoners to war in Ukraine, Russian NGO claims
“Last week, there was a train with second-class sleeping carriages to transport prisoners to the Donetsk region ,” said Ukraine’s army general staff on Monday. “One of the carriages was with convicted women.”
Ukraine has made similar claims before. On 4 February, the army reported that 50 women were recruited from a prison in occupied Donetsk “to replenish losses in manpower”.“ were taken from the colonies of southern Russia,” founder Olga Romanova told Russian investigative news siteThe terms of recruitment or the women’s roles within the army were not specified. Ms Romanova did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Mr Prigozhin subsequently stated that active efforts to recruit female prisoners were ongoing but had not been approved. “We are working in this direction. There is resistance, but we will press on,” he said on Telegram in December, adding that women could be used in “sabotage groups and sniper pairs.”
The warlord has since claimed that Wagner is no longer allowed to recruit from prisons, as relations with Russia’s
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