Reports reveal that nearly 200 Russian convicts, including violent criminals, were released from prisons to fight in Ukraine. The convicts, now involved in the war, have been accused of committing murders and atrocities, contradicting the Kremlin's narrative of atonement for their crimes. Ukrainian special forces have been implicated in the assassinations of pro-Russian collaborators and former lawmakers in Moscow and Luhansk. The situation has led to a shocking spate of violence, including deliberate extermination of Russian draftees stationed near Avdiivka, as well as rape and torture of prisoners of war in Donetsk Oblast.
Ukrainian special forces killed former lawmaker near Moscow, officials say https://t.co/LwVTlzcu9t
Ukrainian agents gun down a former pro-Kremlin lawmaker in Moscow, who fled the country before it was invaded by Russian forces https://t.co/8TOoetHrMo
Ukraine's Security Service behind car bomb killing of pro-Russian collaborator in Luhansk https://t.co/53UB7liuJ3
Ukrainian traitor MP is assassinated in Moscow by Kyiv hit squad who shot him in the head 18 months after he urged Putin to use weapons of mass destruction https://t.co/Uf1ChZio3f https://t.co/V3A7e0fBZi
⚡️ Luhansk man sentenced to 12 years over fighting for Russian proxy forces. Ukrainian forces reportedly detained the collaborator in late May near Bilohorivka, one of the few settlements in Luhansk Oblast still held by Ukraine. https://t.co/mQ9sJmCMrx
More than 100,000 prisoners have been sent from Russian prisons to fight in Ukraine since the start of the full-scale invasion - Vladimir Osechkin, founder of the Gulagu. net project, who received it from a source in the Federal Service for the Execution of Punishments.… https://t.co/F9ya1xOiYT https://t.co/tCxzYQfLze
More atrocities in Donetsk Oblast: Ukraine's Security Service identifies Russian soldiers who raped women and tortured prisoners of war https://t.co/KmztKgv8jw
The Kremlin says men freed from Russia prisons to fight in Ukraine are “atoning for their crimes on the battlefield with their blood.” But a spate of murders by those returning home is shattering Putin’s narrative that the war protects Russia from its foes https://t.co/EzR8OSosPS
Relatives of Russian draftees stationed near the Ukrainian city of Avdiivka have written a letter to Putin complaining that the soldiers are facing “deliberate extermination” after their command ordered for injured fighters to be sent to assault units. https://t.co/72bwig1PYj
Russian veterans of the Ukraine war (also violent criminals released from prison early because they agreed to enlist) https://t.co/gtHyWdHkh3 https://t.co/0twk3r13AZ
"Thousands of criminals are walking our streets." We spent months on this piece about a shocking spate of murders committed across Russia by some of the 30,000 convicts freed from prisons and given presidential pardons in exchange for fighting in Ukraine https://t.co/JuTfI8jirj
These men were among nearly 200 inmates who left a high-security Russian prison to join the war in Ukraine. The New York Times obtained documents and interviews giving the fullest picture yet of the convicts helping to sustain Russia’s invasion. https://t.co/5LEY8U8yhC
Soldiers Who Executed #UkrainianPrisoners on Video Reportedly Eliminated Ukrainian military spokesman Oleksandr Shtupun said that the Russian perpetrators of the alleged #war crime now "cease to exist" https://t.co/c38XXx3CSH https://t.co/e343MypsW2