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
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.
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