The Kremlin decided to form assault units from convicts with hepatitis B and C and send them to war against Ukraine.
The press service of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense reported this today, October 29.
It is noted that:
- Order of the Minister of Defense of the aggressor state of Russia Belousov No. 610, dated October 10, 2024, excludes hepatitis C from the list of diseases the presence of which does not allow military service;
- To recruit units of prisoners with hepatitis, a special procedure for organizing and recruiting into the Russian occupation army was approved. Those infected with hepatitis are labeled in the document as “contingent “C”;
- Before being sent to the front, sick prisoners in colonies must formally be injected with the hepatitis B vaccine and undergo a course of antiviral therapy for hepatitis C.
According to Russian leaders, their new mobilization solution will allow thousands of prisoners to be involved in meat assaults in the war against Ukraine, the Main Intelligence Directorate said. – For example, in prisons and detention centers in the territory of the so-called central military district, there are about 10 thousand of us “hepatitis” – about 15% of them showed a voluntary desire to fight.
According to the Main Intelligence Directorate, the Russians are forming the first four assault companies and two reserve companies from sick prisoners as part of the 1435th and 1437th motorized rifle regiments (27th and 15th motorized rifle brigades from the Russian Federation, respectively);
Such assault companies, again named “in honor of hepatitis,” are planned to be deployed in the temporarily occupied territories of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
Consequently, catastrophic losses and fear of protests in large cities, which could cause the announcement of general mobilization, force Moscow to “scavenge” all the painful evil spirits from prisons for a criminal war, the GUR notes.
Source: Racurs
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