The Ukrainian parliament on Wednesday passed a bill that would allow some prisoners to join the Ukrainian military as Ukraine is desperately trying to mobilize more troops.
Olena Shuliak, the leader of the ruling party Servant of the People, said the mobilization would be voluntary and that prisoners must have no more than three years left of their sentence to be eligible to serve.
Shuliak said in a Facebook post that the bill prohibits prisoners from joining the military if they’ve been convicted of certain crimes, including the murder of two or more people, sexual violence, crimes against “the foundations of national security of Ukraine,” and serious corruption offenses.
“Facing in the conditions of total war against an enemy with more resources can only be consolidated all forces. This bill is about our fight and preservation of Ukrainian statehood,” Shuliak said.
The bill received support from 279 Ukrainian MPs out of the 450-member parliament, known as the Verkhovna Rada. It needs to be signed by the head of the parliament and President Volodymyr Zelensky to become law, and both are expected to support the measure.
Prisoners recruited by Russia’s Wagner Group made up much of the fighting force on the Russian side in the brutal battle of Bakhmut. At the time, Ukrainian and American officials condemned Russia for using prisoners.
The new bill comes as Ukraine is looking to pressure military-age Ukrainians living abroad to come back to the country to join the military. Kyiv has cut off consular service for military-age men, and some NATO countries say they’re willing to help Ukraine pressure them to go fight Russian forces.
Sheer desperation by Kiev now.
Wouldn’t the murder of two or more people make them more qualified?
BTW:
Ukrainian conscription, Odessa
https://twitter.com/narrative_hole/status/1787785877881799104
Looks about right. The kid can’t wait to get off the ground so he can rush to the front to die for Joe Biden.
My advice is as soon as you can go over to the Russians and be on the winning side and not be killed in AMERICAS / Britain`s proxy war with Russia.
At the time, Ukrainian and American officials condemned Russia for using prisoners.
Sure. But I bet Russia didn’t have the rigid standard of not allowing those who have murdered 2 or more to join the fight like Ukraine is doing. /s
“Ukraine would allow some prisoners to join the Ukrainian military.”
By some, do they mean the rapists and the murderers? Because political prisoners won’t fight.
Russia has 1,200 young MEN enlisting in the military each day out of patriotism. Ukraine has to send criminals to the front as they are out of men.
🇷🇺 Think about it. Like a phoenix arsing from the ashes of 1991
Russia is once again a powerful vibrant sovereign nation. слава
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Russia has been openly sending convicted prisoners to the front for more than two years. Ukraine is just copying them.
So says our critical critic 😉
I agree with your first sentence, but not your second.
Check again, that was the Wagner PMC and not the mainline Russian Army. That also stopped when Wagner found them less than willing.
Perhaps you are not old enough to remember Vietnam. Quite a few young men who were arrested in the late 1960s and early 1970s were given a choice. Join the military or go to jail. I never did see a most of those guys again after they went to Vietnam.
You’re partially correct.
I was wrong about “more than two years.”
It wasn’t until June of last year that the Duma passed legislation to recruit convicts into the “mainline Russian army.”
And it was November of 2022, also not “more than two years” ago that Putin signed off on conscripting, rather than recruiting, convicts.
Still convicts and conscripts are not needed as Russia has 1,200 patriotic Russian voluntarily joining the military everyday.
If convicts and conscripts are not needed, why is the Kremlin recruiting convicts and conscripting people? Just for laughs?
Are they? Is it more Western propaganda?
I suppose it’s POSSIBLE that RT was purchased by the New York Times and that Dmitry Peskov abandoned Vladimir Putin for a position with Jeff Bezos. But if so I hadn’t heard about it.
Another propaganda shill for Biden good Job!
Flash bulletin: next week corpses will be drafted to fight for fascist Ukraine.
I can see the poster now…
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