Ukraine has alleged that Russia is forcibly enlisting women into its army to replenish numbers for human wave attacks.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said in a statement yesterday Russia had this week ‘recruited about 50 people from the women’s correctional colony in the city of Snizhne in the temporarily occupied territory of the Donetsk region’.
‘It is also known that they were sent to the territory of the Russian Federation for training.’
The report said: ‘In order to make up for the loss of manpower, the enemy is trying to attract convicted women to participate in the hostilities.’
The Armed Forces of Ukraine previously reported in December that 28 Russian women had been drafted and sent for training to compensate for losses of units in the 1st Army Corps.
Russia does not usually deploy women in combat roles.
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