Nearly 5,000 Ukrainian Inmates Volunteer to Fight
Nearly 5,000 Ukrainian Inmates Volunteer to Fight
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Nearly 5,000 Ukrainian Inmates Volunteer to Fight
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Since both Russia and Ukraine now have prisoners in their military force, how likely it is to have an Ukrainian prisoner serving Russia fighting a Russian prisoner serving Ukraine in the battle field?
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Ukrainian prisoners are volunteering to fight for Ukraine and being forced to fight for Russia.
AFAIK there are no Russian pows serving the Ukrainian military
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that's freedom of russia legion and russian volunteer corps. not many of them, low thousands for the former few hundreds for the latter
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Supposedly there are former Russian POWs in both the Freedom of Russia Legion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Russia_Legion?#History which fights under the UAF International Legion, and the right wing Russian Volunteer Corps https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/4/23/i-want-to-make-up-for-mistakes-the-russian-pows-fighting-for-ukraine
In the case of that Al Jazeera article, the POW who was recruited was part of a prisoner exchange and was on a bus about go back to Russia.
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these aren't POWs, just regular prisoners
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