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Russia Releases Female Prison Inmates to Join Ukraine War (www.nytimes.com)

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Tens of thousands of male convicts have been freed to fight in Ukraine. It is not clear if a small contingent of female volunteers released from a prison portends wider use of female soldiers.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They have been chewing through soldiers at a relentlessly steady pace for two years at this point. They started with a famously large army but it would be surprising if any supply of available recruits hadn't been exhausted and then some by now.