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Bandits, gang members and drug traffickers: Russia expands recruitment of convicts for war

Russia's State Duma (the lower house of the Russian parliament) has expanded the list of convicted criminals whom Russian authorities will be able to recruit into the Armed Forces during mobilisation, martial law or wartime.

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Primary source: Ukrainska Pravda

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