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
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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.
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.