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Russia has deployed battalion of Ukrainian prisoners of war to frontline - ISW
(www.ukrinform.net)
Note that Ukrinform is Ukranian state media.
this post was submitted on 30 Dec 2023
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We have video of them doing this already with Ukrainian soldiers.
This is how you get your junior officers fragged.
Wouldn’t arming your POWs, and grouping them in a battalion, be a risk?
What is Russia doing to prevent this group from staging a mutiny and turning their guns on their captors? I imagine the Russians have some sort of leverage over these poor folks.
They must have members of their family hostage or something. Otherwise I don't see how that would even work.
You. Run towards the front line.
If you don't, I shoot you in the stomach now then torture you until you die. You never see your family and friends again.
If you do, you'll probably be shot and killed, but who knows? If you surrender at the right time, you might make it home. Probably not. But maybe?
I'm sure it's easy behind a keyboard to think you'd be strong after being a POW given those choices. But you wouldn't. If you would, you'd have been tortured to death already.
It's not a video game. It's not a movie. You're not a main character.
Exactly. Utter propaganda bullshit
I never said it was propaganda.
For all we know the FSB could have the details about these soldier’s families, and or those families could be trapped in Russian controlled portions of Ukraine. Russia’s leverage would be these soldier’s wives, children, and parents.