A Putin confidant says he is working on a plan to recruit Russian female inmates to serve as snipers and saboteurs in Ukraine.
Prigozhin was responding to a proposal made by Vyacheslav Vegner, a lawmaker from the Sverdlovsk region of Russia, who said he had been approached by a group of female inmates serving time in a local penal colony who he said were prepared to deploy to Ukraine as doctors, nurses and communications operators.
Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin , shown with Vladimir Putin , wants to recruit female prison inmates to fight in Ukraine.Prigozhin is convinced female prisoners could serve as snipers and saboteurs. Pictured: Inmates make uniforms for Russian soldiers.“[Female inmates] should serve not only as nurses and communications operators, but also in sabotage groups and sniper pairs,” he wrote in his response.
The fledgling plan to rope female prisoners into the invasion comes as Russian Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu outlined a proposal to expand the country’s military to 1.5 million combat personnel from the current 1.15 million. Prigozhin is the founder of the paramilitary organization Wagner Group, whose members are leading the fight in the east of Ukraine.Russian President Vladimir Putin , Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff of Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov attend an annual meeting of the Defense Ministry Board in Moscow on Wednesday.
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