Promises of freedom and
riches are made to convicts in cramped jail cells. Frantic phone calls ensue
between relatives and inmates weighing the offer. Then prisoners vanish,
leaving their loved ones to sift through reports of the wounded arriving in
hospitals.
This
scene is playing out in the convict communities across Russia. With a regular
army stretched thin after nearly six months of a disastrously executed invasion
of Ukraine there is increasing evidence that the Kremlin is recruiting Russia's
prisoners to fight.
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