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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Chris Hughes

Vladimir Putin to force unemployed Russian men into fighting in brutal Ukraine war

Moscow lawmakers are planning to press-gang unemployed men into fighting on the Ukraine frontline, The Mirror can reveal.

The cruel plan will involve hundreds of thousands of jobless male recruits forcibly signing up when they turn up to the dole office.

It is the latest plan to boost troop numbers for President Vladimir Putin’s ailing war which has thus far killed 132,160 of Moscow’s soldiers.

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