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‘Russia recruits prisoners like cannon fodder to fight in the Donbas’ | Abroad

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Money and freedom in exchange for a twenty percent chance of survival:

Russia is recruiting prisoners to fight in Ukraine, various sources say. In exchange for money and their freedom, they are enlisted in Putin’s private militia to serve “as cannon fodder” in the Donbas. If they survive, they will come home “with a clean criminal record.”

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