From convict to combatant, Ukraine enlists prisoners to fight Russian forces ...Middle East

By Sebastian Shukla, Kosta Gak, Frederik Pleitgen, and Scott McWhinnie, CNN Pokrovsk, eastern Ukraine, (CNN) — Lurking in the bushes near Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine is a unit of men who have two things in common: The short amount of time they have served defending their nation and time spent behind bars. The 15 infantry men of the 59th Brigade, part of the Shkval – or wind gust – battalion are former prisoners. Convicted of a variety of crimes, they see their service in defense of Ukraine as redemption and a chance at a new life without a criminal record. The catch for prisoners is that they are contracted to the military until the end of the war. There is also a considerable financi

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