Russia dangles freedom to prisoners if they fight in Ukraine. Many are taking the deadly gamble.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0347sXLzLms

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 and bloody invasion of Ukraine, there's increasing evidence that the Kremlin is making ugly choices in its ugly war and recruiting Russia's prisoners to fight.
Over a month-long investigation, CNN has spoken to inmates caught up in Russia's newest recruitment scheme, along with their relatives and friends. Activists believe hundreds have been approached in dozens of prisons across Russia -- from murderers to drug offenders. Some have even been taken from the prison where one high-profile American jailed in Russia, Paul Whelan, is held. His brother David said in a statement in July he had heard ten volunteers had left IK17 in Mordovia for the frontlines in Ukraine

Dozens of chat messages between relatives, reviewed by CNN, detail the tempting rewards offered to fight in Ukraine, where the risk of death is high. The latest Western assessments suggest up to 75,000 Russian troops have been killed or injured since the invasion began (a claim the Kremlin has denied).
One prisoner spoke to CNN from his cramped jail cell, a cat crawling across bunk beds, and a fan clamped on top of an ageing television tried to cool the air between heavily barred windows. Imprisoned for multiple years for drugs offenses, he spoke on condition of anonymity using a contraband smartphone -- quite common in Russia's prison system -- to outline the conditions on offer.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/09/europe/russia-recruits-prisoners-ukraine-war-cmd-intl/index.html

This means that Russian Military Casualties are already too great to Justify

Las las Russia is an overrated county with outdated machinaries

Lol.....

Lies

The fact that people actually believes this thrash shows exactly how and why Buhari was able to deceive Nigerians and tinubu is still gaining supporters to finish us up!! Russia thay has withdrawn 70-80% of Russian troops home and left the war for the militias of LPR and DPR, is what you are saying is discussing with criminals and drug addicted!! Looool!!

I can’t even stress.. Lalasticlala please this is fake news, do justice to this moniker..

Source = CNN = Fabricated Rubbish!



The smart reader will replace Russia with Ukraine, anywhere it is mentioned in the article.

DerrickzB:
The fact that people actually believes this thrash shows exactly how and why Buhari was able to deceive Nigerians and tinubu is still gaining supporters to finish us up!! Russia thay has withdrawn 70-80% of Russian troops home and left the war for the militias of LPR and DPR, is what you are saying is discussing with criminals and drug addicted!! Looool!!

I can’t even stress.. Lalasticlala please this is fake news, do justice to this moniker..

Look at the foolish caliber of people who are responding to this trash, it's probably the op and all his other monikers, don't take them seriously,I mean you'd have to be an slowpoke to even consider this as a real story

ChangetheChange:
That means Russians soldiers have been decimated and collected wotowoto in Ukraine.

.how slow and mentally impaired do you have to be to believe they are releasing prisoners when 80% of Thier ukraine fighters are already back home chilling and countries are offering them 100s of thousands of fighter.
Normally I would say you can't possibly be this slow but this is nairaland and the level of foolishness some of you show us impressive.
No insult intended

Praise be to God for the mercy of this Putin!

I have friends in Russian prison. Hundreds of our boys are languishing there.

Now they can fight for there freedom and return home after so many years.

It is well.

You'd have to be a dumbass mofo to believe dis shite