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The Kremlin no longer offers pardons to newly convicted conscripts and significantly changes the conditions of their service. Source: Institute for the Study of War (ISW); BBC; Vazhnye Istorii, a Russian media outlet Details: It possibly happens due to the reduced number of eligible convicts for recruitment into the Russian Armed Forces.
They lost experienced UAV operators.
Russia is using a “meat wave” strategy that sends scores of poorly trained soldiers to die on the front lines against Ukraine to clear a path for the Kremlin’s more valuable elite units -- then abandons their frozen corpses on the battlefield.
Nicknamed for the lead character in Breaking Bad, the notorious drug dealer and his wife were arrested and imprisoned in 2018 for making and selling amphetamines.