Russia recruiting female convicts into the military report says, as the role of women in the Ukraine war expands
Russia recruiting female convicts into the military report says, as the role of women in the Ukraine war expands
The late founder of the mercenary Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, had started the practice of recruiting convicts for the war in Ukraine.
- Russia is recruiting female convicts to boost its military forces, a Ukrainian intelligence spokesperson said.
- Moscow wants to recruit the convicts to auxiliary and combat roles, the Kyiv Post reported.
- More than 100,000 convicts from Russian penal colonies have reportedly been conscripted to fight in Ukraine.
Cannon fodder is a gender neutral job.
You made me spit my coffee.
russia now embraces gender equality, feminism and general wokeness.
I was told Russia was going to protect us from all that wokeness. The Russian Army was strong because it didn't bow down to wokeness like America.
I had an idiot tell me he would move to Russia to escape the wokeness (not going to happen).
I wished him luck, I sure wasn't going to follow and I hope he likes being sent to the front as cannon fodder. Putin barely cares about Russians so a foreign Slavic Muslim is certainly going to get treated amazingly I'm sure. But I don't mind conservatives leaving.
#russiasowoke
So on the surface, it's more people to die in Ukraine, which is sad. On the other hand, one of the reasons women traditionally don't serve in armies is because if you need 100 kids to be born in 9 months, that can come from one single guy, but it can only come from 100 women. Something to consider in a country that is in a demographic crisis already.
They may end up serving in a different role than you may be assuming.
Making a corps of childbearering women under military supervision would be very dystopian, but also kinda in-character for Putin and the Russian government’s trajectory lately.
Putin has no long term strategy. It's all about surviving the next day. Russia will be paying the price for decades to come, though.
It would be naive to think that. Dugin, his ideologue, wrote a book on their long term geopolitical strategy, of which Brexit, and funding US racists was a part of.
He made a massive miscalculation on the combat effectiveness of both the Russian and Ukrainian armies, which was a heavy blow to those goals, though. Let's hope it was a big enough mistake.
I am willing to bet that is not a picture of the female convicts
There’s going to be so much rape.
More dead blyats.
What is the opposite of a girl boss?
Boy slave(?)
Good. Should help tank Russia's population.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Russia is recruiting female convicts to bolster its war effort in Ukraine, the Kyiv Post reported, citing a Ukrainian intelligence spokesperson.
The practice of offering convicts freedom in exchange for military service in Ukraine began under Yevgeny Prigozhin, the late founder of the mercenary Wagner Group.
Dmitry Peskov, a spokesperson for Russian President Vladimir Putin, has defended Russia's use of prisoners in the war, saying that they "atone with blood for crimes on the battlefield, in assault brigades, under bullets, under shells."
In January, the UK Ministry of Defence reported that Russia was on course to lose 500,000 troops by the end of 2024 after turning its forces into a "low quality, high quantity mass army."
When a missile hits a house, it doesn't care if there are women, men, children - everyone dies," Sniper Evgenya Emerald told the BBC.
Ukraine's defense ministry opened up more combat positions to women in 2016 and again in 2018, meaning they could serve in roles such as infantry or snipers, CNBC previously reported.
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Shouldn't every Russian "soldier" or "military personnel" be defecting by the millions to Ukraine ? I mean if the Ukraine-Russia War finally resolves, either Ukraine will be a EU AND NATO Member !!! Or Russia will shrink politically and economically ( military likely the first to get thrown under the bus if Russia loses) even a Russian victory now will be a extremely pyrrhic lose-lose situation further isolating Russia.
I cant imagine if Russia sends WOMEN to the front-lines in ANY capacity. Women will seek to surrender to Ukrainian forces and Russia will start to decline by population. You cannot create an Army without women participating. If you remove even 5% of Russian women, the war will be lost before you fire bullets.
They have families in Russia. And the state have plenty of windows with their names already written on it, just in case.