Against the backdrop of frequent failures on the battlefield, often causing a shortage of personnel, Russia resorts to bringing Ukrainian prisoners from the occupied territories into battle on the side of the Kremlin forces. In particular, such a phenomenon is expanding in the captured Melitopol, where, by the way, the bridge was recently destroyed. Recruiters have already been sent there to search for mercenaries in the NPK Wagner, legitimate mayor Ivan Fedorov said on the air of the telethon.

[see_also ids\u003d" But, unfortunately, we can only imagine what kind of torture the infidels apply to them.. Guards come to Melitopol and go to prisons. They are trying to find people there for their VAT,” the mayor said..

As it became known a week ago, the Russian government intends to create 24 correctional colonies in the occupied territories of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions of Ukraine.

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" Some of them were forcibly sent to dig trenches.. Some were sentenced to life imprisonment. There are at least 5 dungeons for prisoners in Melitopol," and added that during the occupation, about a thousand residents were imprisoned.