Ukraine war: Putin allows former criminals to be conscripted

Convicted murderers and cause dealers who person precocious near situation successful Russia look being conscripted to combat successful Ukraine nether a alteration to the law.

President Vladimir Putin amended the authorities connected calling up reservists to see men convicted of superior crimes who precocious near prison.

Former prisoners convicted of enactment crimes against children oregon coercion are inactive excluded from serving.

Russian soldiers person been accused of crimes during the penetration of Ukraine.

Ukraine itself says it has identified tens of thousands of imaginable warfare crimes by Russian forces.

Russia denies deliberately attacking civilians and accuses Ukrainian forces of targeting civilians successful separatist-held areas of the state with artillery, which Ukraine denies.

The UN committee said it had recovered "two instances of ill-treatment of Russian Federation soldiers by Ukrainian soldiers" but the fig of warfare crimes allegations against Russia was "obviously importantly larger".

Russian instrumentality does not let commutation of situation sentences successful speech for mercenary work but Wagner caput Yevgeny Prigozhin was filmed telling prisoners "nobody goes backmost down bars" if they served with his group.

On Friday, President Putin announced that immoderate 49,000 of astir 300,000 reservists called up since September had already been deployed to units serving successful Ukraine.

He told a radical of young men and women from a Kremlin-controlled question called Popular Front that "about 50,000" volunteers had besides signed up.

Military experts successful the West and Ukraine accidental Mr Putin's determination to telephone up reservists showed that Russian troops were failing severely connected the battlefield successful Ukraine.

Thousands of Russian men opposed to the warfare person fled the state since the call-up was announced.