Russia has started an army recruitment drive in Moswcow's high schools as The Wagner Group looks to bolster its ranks to fight the war in Ukraine.
The recruiters have reportedly been giving ‘career talks’ to students, and distributing questionnaires, titled ‘Application of a Young Warrior,’ in order to collect their contact information.
However, the MoD tweeted that ‘the new initiatives are unlikely to make up for the loss of the convict recruit pipeline,’ and that if the convict ban endures, ‘Prigozhin will likely be forced to reduce the scale or intensity of Wagner operations in Ukraine’.reportedly been killing Russian soldiers in Bakhmut at a ratio of 7:1This week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian forces had suffered more than 1,100 dead in the past few days of fighting in and around Bakhmut.
‘Last week there was a movement towards the Donetsk region of a train with reserved seats for transporting prisoners. One of the carriages [was for] convicted women,’ a Ukrainian general said in a statement.
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