Russia released a group of women from a prison in late May to join the fighting in Ukraine, according to two former inmates who maintain contact with those still there, potentially signaling a new phase in the Kremlin’s use of criminals in its war effort.
I mostly agree with you, but is there a single military in history that didn’t mostly rely on naive kids with zero knowledge of what they were getting themselves into?
Israel’s IDF relies on mandatory service. Turkish military, too. Russia.