Ukrainian Ex-Convicts Are Ready To Fight for Ukraine’s Freedom: From Prison to Frontline



Ukrainian Ex-Convicts Are Ready To Fight for Ukraine’s Freedom: From Prison to Frontline

In May, President Zelenskyy signed a bill allowing convicts to join the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Currently, various ‘Brigades’ are hurrying to recruit potential fighters from prisons across the country. Inmates are highly motivated and well disciplined, making them perfectly suited to become soldiers. But how is this different from the notorious Russian “Storm Z” or PMC Wagner, who also recruited prisoners, and why are these men highly motivated?

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38 comments
  1. Чудова можливість працювати для своєї нації. Будьте безпечні та переможні. ✌️💙💛🇺🇦🏁

  2. Heard from one that they have a PDF working in a moral unit apparently. Willy has a video on it. Not sure what the hell why they say freedom. Ukraine is not a free nation it's oligarch state. It's fighting for sovereignty over a historic foe.

  3. I remember people making lots of fun for Wagner allowing convicts to join for their freedom. People laughed at that but support the same thing happening here. Strange.

  4. good, these people failed their country and now they have the choice to either pay the price by staying in jail and complete their sentence or give back to the country by defending it.
    what better way to show you changed than going from failing you fellow countrymen to defending them. i applaud them

  5. You aren't condemned for life for (most) bad decisions, people can change, learn and grow. Serving your country like this is a great way to give back and repent your sins. Slava Ukraini!

  6. These ex-convicts would receive much better training, equipment and leadership compared to their near-useless Russian counterparts and thus will have a big contribution to Ukraine's efforts

    Should Europe, US and Canada pardon their own Ukrainian and Russian convicts if they serve in the Ukrainian army?

  7. up to 60 days of training? after one year probation term, they will be no different from any other soldiers? what does that even mean? so they train for 60 days and if they survive for a year they will be accepted as professional soldiers of the ukrainian armed forces?

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