KYIV: The Ukrainian military says Russia is using prisoners of war to fight against Ukraine. Ukraine’s military also said untrained people were being recruited to fight.
53 Brigade Major Serji said that Russia was sending a number of men with guns ahead of them. They can only hold on for a few minutes. Russia sends seven or eight troops every night. After this, more experienced commandos arrive with sophisticated weapons. It’s a terrible situation. He said dead bodies were scattered everywhere.
Ukraine accused the Wagner mercenary group, a force formed by Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin in 2014, of sending such people. Under the leadership of Prigos, thousands of prisoners are released from prison through the promise of a pardon for their crimes and their huge salaries. Those who want to escape from prison are preparing to go to the war front soon. However, due to insufficient training, they are killed in battle.
Such people are sent to the front line of the war because there are no more soldiers. Ukrainian military sources said that some of them were captured and some were seriously injured. The Ukrainian army also released a video of the man being interrogated. He says through the video that in which prison the number of the prisoner was. He says he was recruited into the army by Wagner’s group, trained for a month and recruited other prisoners in his prison.
The report also revealed that the Wagner Group assigned 400 Africans to assassinate the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky. Three attempts were made to assassinate Zelenskyi in March, but failed.
English Summary: Russia uses poorly trained ex-criminals as ‘disposable soldiers’
