Facing catastrophic casualties and recruiting shortages, Putin’s regime is opening prison doors to the most dangerous criminals on earth. The State Duma has rushed through new legislation allowing convicts sentenced for particularly grave crimes\u2014including life sentences\u2014to sign military contracts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Key points of this dark strategy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Special Penal Battalions: The Russian Ministry of Defense is creating dedicated assault units composed entirely of violent felons, cartel smugglers, and gang leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Amnesty for Atrocities: Criminals serving 8 to 15 years\u2014or even life\u2014for gang violence, large-scale drug trafficking, murder, and rape are being promised full pardons in exchange for frontline service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Societal Timebomb: These brutalized individuals will eventually be released back into Russian cities, creating an unprecedented wave of violent crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Moscow’s war machine is now powered by life-term convicts. Unless Russia halts its aggression against Ukraine, its own society will be consumed by the violent monsters it is releasing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Facing catastrophic casualties and recruiting shortages, Putin’s regime is opening prison doors to the most dangerous criminals on earth. The State Duma has rushed through new legislation allowing convicts sentenced for particularly grave crimes\u2014including life sentences\u2014to sign military contracts. Key points of this dark strategy: Special Penal Battalions: The Russian Ministry of Defense is creating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,55,1,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-politics","category-uncategorized","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28518,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28516\/revisions\/28518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}