Russia wants to use prisoners with HCV and C for "meat" attacks in Ukraine
The Russian military command wants to form assault units from convicts with hepatitis B and C. They will be sent to carry out meat “assaults” in Ukraine.
This was reported by RBC-Ukraine with reference to the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine.
According to the intelligence, the Russian Defense Ministry issued Order 610, dated October 10, 2024. It excludes hepatitis C from the list of diseases that do not allow military service.
The Russians did this in order to man units from prisoners with hepatitis. Hepatitis patients are labeled as “contingent C” in the document. It is noted that before being sent to the front, sick prisoners in colonies should be formally injected with a vaccine against hepatitis B and undergo a course of antiviral therapy for hepatitis C.
“According to the Russian leaders, their new mobilization decision will allow them to involve thousands of prisoners in meat assaults in the war against Ukraine,” the GUR writes.
According to Ukrainian intelligence, there are about 10,000 “hepatitis patients” in prisons and detention centers in the so-called Central Military District of the Russian Armed Forces. About 15% of them agreed to fight voluntarily.
The first four assault companies and two reserve companies of sick prisoners are being formed by the Russians as part of the 1435th and 1437th motorized rifle regiments. Named after hepatitis, the newly created Russian assault companies “B-C” are to be deployed in the temporarily occupied territories of Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
Author - Dmitriy Levchenko, 30/10/2024
