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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
World
Will Stewart & Graeme Murray

Vladimir Putin sends 400 criminals to front line of war in Ukraine with limited training

Four hundred hardened criminals have been transported to fight in Vladimir Putin's war, according to video footage.

And one of the dictator's leading cronies Yevgeny Prigozhin has admitted Russia is facing “disgrace” in the Ukrainian conflict.

A video shows the tough prisoners from penal colonies in Tambov region who have signed up as fighters reportedly taken by a dozen jail vans to a “training camp” in the south of Russia.

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