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Nearly 5,000 Ukrainian Inmates Volunteer to Fight (www.kyivpost.com)
submitted 10 months ago by LaFinlandia@sopuli.xyz to c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz
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[–] NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 29 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Ukrainian prisoners are volunteering to fight for Ukraine and being forced to fight for Russia.

AFAIK there are no Russian pows serving the Ukrainian military

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 10 months ago

that's freedom of russia legion and russian volunteer corps. not many of them, low thousands for the former few hundreds for the latter

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Supposedly there are former Russian POWs in both the Freedom of Russia Legion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Russia_Legion?#History which fights under the UAF International Legion, and the right wing Russian Volunteer Corps https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/4/23/i-want-to-make-up-for-mistakes-the-russian-pows-fighting-for-ukraine

In the case of that Al Jazeera article, the POW who was recruited was part of a prisoner exchange and was on a bus about go back to Russia.