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Nearly 5,000 Ukrainian Inmates Volunteer to Fight (www.kyivpost.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Since both Russia and Ukraine now have prisoners in their military force, how likely it is to have an Ukrainian prisoner serving Russia fighting a Russian prisoner serving Ukraine in the battle field?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Ukrainian prisoners are volunteering to fight for Ukraine and being forced to fight for Russia.

AFAIK there are no Russian pows serving the Ukrainian military

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

that's freedom of russia legion and russian volunteer corps. not many of them, low thousands for the former few hundreds for the latter

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Supposedly there are former Russian POWs in both the Freedom of Russia Legion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Russia_Legion?#History which fights under the UAF International Legion, and the right wing Russian Volunteer Corps https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/4/23/i-want-to-make-up-for-mistakes-the-russian-pows-fighting-for-ukraine

In the case of that Al Jazeera article, the POW who was recruited was part of a prisoner exchange and was on a bus about go back to Russia.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

these aren't POWs, just regular prisoners