A Ukrainian officer said that Russia has been sacrificing troops in order to locate Ukrainian forces.
Smoke billows over the Ukrainian town of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region on January 25, 2023. In inset, an armored anti-aircraft vehicle abandoned by Russian forces in the northeastern Kharkiv region on the edge of Balakliia, Ukraine, on September 28, 2022. A captain in the Ukrainian military said in a recent interview that Russia is using humans in a strategy in which their deaths can reveal locations of Ukraine’s forces.
In September, a video emerged that allegedly showed Prigozhin recruiting soldiers from Russia's penitentiary system, and Russian human rights activist Vladimir Osechkin recently toldthat as many as 30,000 prisoners have been recruited from Russian jails and sent to fight in Ukraine, where the war began 11 months ago when Russia invaded., a town in Ukraine's Donetsk region where Russia has recently claimed battlefield success.
He said that the formal Russian military uses the same strategy, but rather than prisoners, they mobilize people from Ukrainian territories that Russia has illegitimately claimed as part of its nation.
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