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Tens of thousands of male convicts have been freed to fight in Ukraine. It is not clear if a small contingent of female volunteers released from a prison portends wider use of female soldiers.
They have been chewing through soldiers at a relentlessly steady pace for two years now. They started with a famously large army but it would be surprising if any supply of available recruits hadn’t been exhausted and then some by now.