Ukraine to allow some prisoners to shore up army as Russians push ahead

Convicts to be let replace exhausted soldiers at front as Russians advance

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy at a press conference in Kyiv. Photo: AP

Arpan Rai
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Ukraine is enlisting convicted prisoners into its army to fight the Russian invasion as Volodymyr Zelensky’s government struggles to replenish manpower on the frontline.

Reeling under an intensifying ­Russian offensive, Kyiv is running out of manpower and material to continue waging the war after over two years and rotate out its exhausted and outnumbered frontline soldiers.