Wilshire@sopuli.xyz to Ukraine@sopuli.xyz · 6 months agoNearly 5,000 Ukrainian Inmates Volunteer to Fightwww.kyivpost.comexternal-linkmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1192arrow-down15cross-posted to: ukrainianconflict@lemmit.online
arrow-up1187arrow-down1external-linkNearly 5,000 Ukrainian Inmates Volunteer to Fightwww.kyivpost.comWilshire@sopuli.xyz to Ukraine@sopuli.xyz · 6 months agomessage-square21fedilinkcross-posted to: ukrainianconflict@lemmit.online
minus-squareNoIWontPickAName@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up31arrow-down2·6 months agoUkrainian prisoners are volunteering to fight for Ukraine and being forced to fight for Russia. AFAIK there are no Russian pows serving the Ukrainian military
minus-squareskillissuerlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·6 months agothat’s freedom of russia legion and russian volunteer corps. not many of them, low thousands for the former few hundreds for the latter
minus-squarezabadoh@ani.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up8·edit-26 months agoSupposedly 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.
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
that’s freedom of russia legion and russian volunteer corps. not many of them, low thousands for the former few hundreds for the latter
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.