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  What amateur hour. In the US we can recruit prisoners for years. An unending resource… sadly
context: Now we know what the recent announcement about releasing prisoners who had survived their tour in Ukraine being released was about. Promise made. Promise kept. They're trying to get new recruites... >
  
  Wait, so the fucking Wagner Group has a more honorable word than the Russian government?!
  This is literally how warlords build loyalty and start coups. >
  
  They took 30000 prisoners, and we heard of a few that completed their term.
  Not great odds - Basically cannon-fodder sent to run in and soak up bullets. >
  
  It’s not like they showed the prisoners by name, it was just a bunch of “prisoners”. I’m sure those “prisoners” are going to show up again in future recruitment videos. >
  
  Ran out of Russian prisoners already?
  My, that was quick. >
  
  They've also been recruiting from prisons in the Central African Republic. Gonna be fun when the survivors from that group get released back into society .... >
  
  Some of those prisoners in CAR are combat experienced. A lot of wars in Central Africa and Congo >
  
  Plenty of translatable skills between factional violence in central africa and a conventional war in east europe during wintertime. >
  
  In all fairness, I think the only skills they are required to show are run in a direction and shoot rifle. >
  
  If they even have rifles left, nah I think they're trying to get the know how for magical charms that makes you bulletproof. >
  
  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 81%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  A prisoner from Belarus is among a group of armed Wagner Group recruits who fled from a training base in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region in December, according to a local information portal.
  The Wagner Group has been recruiting large numbers of prisoners for Putin's war in Ukraine and hiring in penal colonies in Russia, offering male prisoners commuted sentences and cash incentives in return for six months of military service in Ukraine.
  Vladimir Osechkin, a Russian human rights activist and the head of the Gulagu.net anti-corruption project, a prisoners' rights group, told Newsweek last week that since February 24, as many as 30,000 prisoners have been recruited from jails and deployed to Ukraine, while more than 5,000 have been killed in battle and in the camps of the Wagner Group.
  
  
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  more than 5,000 have been killed in battle and in the camps of the Wagner Group
  
  I bet they don't have any canoes or s'mores at Wagner Group Camp... >
  
  Hey, someone’s gotta suck down those bullets >
  
  Nothing quite like having to settle ex-con gladiator armies post-war. By why should old men care about the future? >
  
  Almost none of them make it back alive.
  They are being sent in head first just to soak up enemy bullets. >
  
  Will there be any mercenaries left in the world by the time Russia is through with them?