War On Ukraine: Russia Recruiting Soldiers From Prisons

The Fox News Rundown

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🗓️ 11 August 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Massive Russian casualties in Ukraine have forced Moscow to scour their prisons to recruit convicts to fight in their invasion. These prisoners are being offered money and their freedom to most likely become 'cannon fodder' on the battlefield. FOX's John Saucier speaks with FOX's Amy Kellogg, Senior Foreign Correspondent, about the prisoner recruitment and she gauges the Russian support of the invasion. Click Here To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: War On Ukraine' https://listen.foxaud.io/rundown?sid=fnr.podeve Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:38.0	Thursday, August 11th, 2022. I'm John Sancier.
0:40.0	Where would you rather be?
0:41.0	Locked up in a Russian gulag or out fighting on the battlefield in Ukraine?
0:45.6	This option is playing out in Russian prisons as casualties mount up in the Russian army
0:50.4	needs more boots on the ground.
0:52.4	Convicted really heartened criminals, people who have murdered,
0:55.0	and those guys are being allegedly sent in
0:58.0	to create these brigades that can do knife fighting
1:01.0	and kill people in the manner of the murders that we saw in Boucha.
1:07.0	This is the Fox News rundown.
1:09.0	War on Ukraine. I'm Charles Payne.
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