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Russia Turns to Women's Prisons for Fresh Recruits – Reports


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Russia has resorted to recruiting inmates from women's prisons to serve in the Russian military in a bid to make up for its growing losses in Ukraine, according to both Ukrainian officials and an independent Russian prisons watchdog.

“Last week, a train with sleeping cars for the transfer of prisoners was spotted moving towards the Donetsk region. One of the cars [had] female convicts [in it],” Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said in an update published on Monday.

Olga Romanova, the co-founder of prisoners’ rights organization Russia Behind Bars, confirmed the ministry's claims to independent news outlet iStories, noting that Russia had likely been using female prisoners to aid its invasion efforts since at least the end of last year.

“They were taken from penal colonies in southern Russia. I don’t know the exact ones, but they worked in Kushchevka [in the southern Krasnodar region],” Romanova told iStories.

As many as 100 female prisoners are believed to have been transferred to fight in Ukraine so far, according to the human rights defender, though it remains unclear if the recruitment was carried out on a voluntary basis or whether the inmates had been press-ganged into the Russian military.

In February, Ukrainian military officials said that Russia had recruited as many as 50 female prisoners from a penal colony in the Russia-occupied city of Snizhne in Ukraine’s Donetsk region. The recruits were sent for “training” in Russia before being returned to Ukraine to fight, they said.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023...r-crimes-cases-against-russians-report-a80471
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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy insisted his forces must win the battle for Bakhmut in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, as doubts continue over whether Ukraine should spend more manpower and resources on defending the besieged city in Donetsk.

“As always, today I was in touch with our commanders, with intelligence [officers]. It is very hard in the east - very painful,” Zelenskyy said in his nightly address.

“We must destroy the enemy’s military power - and we will destroy it,” he said, adding that the defense of settlements big and small, such as Bilohorivka and Avdiivka or Bakhmut and Vuhledar, could determine what Ukraine’s future looks like.

 
If you support Ukraine independence and sovereignty and want to see Russia pay for the damage and pain it has inflicted on millions, you will NOT vote for a Republican in the next presidential election.

The worst thing that can happen for Ukraine is for this to become a political football for 2024. Support has been falling and the linked article below is from last month....I think support gradually erodes the longer this goes. Seeing the same thing in Europe.

It's a political mistake to go into attack mode NOW.....Ukraine military aid support is solid for at least the next few months. They're getting what they need. Still have enough R support NOW to continue aid. Making this an attack on R's generally does Ukraine no favors....it'll be easy for them to turn if the polls keep going in the wrong direction.

Just think it'd be a smarter path to embrace the bipartisan support we have for Ukraine NOW instead of wanting to make it a Team Red/Team blue thing....Ukraine is the ultimate loser in that scenario.




WASHINGTON (AP) — Support among the American public for providing Ukraine weaponry and direct economic assistance has softened as the Russian invasion nears a grim one-year milestone, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

Forty-eight percent say they favor the U.S. providing weapons to Ukraine, with 29 percent opposed and 22 percent saying they’re neither in favor nor opposed. In May 2022, less than three months into the war, 60 percent of U.S. adults said they were in favor of sending Ukraine weapons.

Americans are about evenly divided on sending government funds directly to Ukraine, with 37 percent in favor and 38 percent opposed, with 23 percent saying neither. The signs of diminished support for Ukraine come as President Joe Biden is set to travel to Poland next week to mark the first anniversary of the biggest conflict in Europe since World War II.

 
The worst thing that can happen for Ukraine is for this to become a political football for 2024. Support has been falling and the linked article below is from last month....I think support gradually erodes the longer this goes. Seeing the same thing in Europe.

It's a political mistake to go into attack mode NOW.....Ukraine military aid support is solid for at least the next few months. They're getting what they need. Still have enough R support NOW to continue aid. Making this an attack on R's generally does Ukraine no favors....it'll be easy for them to turn if the polls keep going in the wrong direction.

Just think it'd be a smarter path to embrace the bipartisan support we have for Ukraine NOW instead of wanting to make it a Team Red/Team blue thing....Ukraine is the ultimate loser in that scenario.




WASHINGTON (AP) — Support among the American public for providing Ukraine weaponry and direct economic assistance has softened as the Russian invasion nears a grim one-year milestone, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

Forty-eight percent say they favor the U.S. providing weapons to Ukraine, with 29 percent opposed and 22 percent saying they’re neither in favor nor opposed. In May 2022, less than three months into the war, 60 percent of U.S. adults said they were in favor of sending Ukraine weapons.

Americans are about evenly divided on sending government funds directly to Ukraine, with 37 percent in favor and 38 percent opposed, with 23 percent saying neither. The signs of diminished support for Ukraine come as President Joe Biden is set to travel to Poland next week to mark the first anniversary of the biggest conflict in Europe since World War II.


Under what premise do R’s take a policy position that directly benefits Vladimir Putin? I don’t get that at all.
 
I hope nobody has delusions of getting Russia to pay a penny when it comes to Ukraine rebuilding.

That isn’t going to happen.

The UN will have to help and basically Ukrainian society has been set back decades and nothing can be done to reverse that.
 
Under what premise do R’s take a policy position that directly benefits Vladimir Putin? I don’t get that at all.
Right now most R's in the House and Senate support Ukraine aid. The votes bare that out.

Making the R's that question support an indictment of all R's is making it a political football that I think is a mistake. D's making this a political weapon to beat the R's over the head with is a mistake IMO.

Combine that with diminishing support in polling and it's not good news for Ukraine.

A better strategy...if helping Ukraine is the goal....is to trumpet the bipartisan support aid has received.

I know that's an unpopular position :)

One more thing...people on this board care and are invested in Ukraine. The general public? Not so much...
 
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I hope nobody has delusions of getting Russia to pay a penny when it comes to Ukraine rebuilding.

That isn’t going to happen.

The UN will have to help and basically Ukrainian society has been set back decades and nothing can be done to reverse that.
Russia exports much of it's natural resources through 3rd parties. Their pipelines go across multiple countries. Loosening sanctions would come with costs attached to them. There are ways to make them pay.
 
The worst thing that can happen for Ukraine is for this to become a political football for 2024. Support has been falling and the linked article below is from last month....I think support gradually erodes the longer this goes. Seeing the same thing in Europe.

It's a political mistake to go into attack mode NOW.....Ukraine military aid support is solid for at least the next few months. They're getting what they need. Still have enough R support NOW to continue aid. Making this an attack on R's generally does Ukraine no favors....it'll be easy for them to turn if the polls keep going in the wrong direction.

Just think it'd be a smarter path to embrace the bipartisan support we have for Ukraine NOW instead of wanting to make it a Team Red/Team blue thing....Ukraine is the ultimate loser in that scenario.




WASHINGTON (AP) — Support among the American public for providing Ukraine weaponry and direct economic assistance has softened as the Russian invasion nears a grim one-year milestone, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

Forty-eight percent say they favor the U.S. providing weapons to Ukraine, with 29 percent opposed and 22 percent saying they’re neither in favor nor opposed. In May 2022, less than three months into the war, 60 percent of U.S. adults said they were in favor of sending Ukraine weapons.

Americans are about evenly divided on sending government funds directly to Ukraine, with 37 percent in favor and 38 percent opposed, with 23 percent saying neither. The signs of diminished support for Ukraine come as President Joe Biden is set to travel to Poland next week to mark the first anniversary of the biggest conflict in Europe since World War II.

Team Blue here, we aren't making it a political football. What is happening is a few politicians with 2024 aspirations are making a very calculated decision for their own benefit, and the gradual shift in the GOP into the GQP where traditional party values are no longer honored.
 
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