Convicts.

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Bashi-bazooks Russian style?

From an Internet web site very favorable to the cause of the Ukraine an interesting article

"Russian Lieutenant-Colonel Exposes Kremlin’s Tactics of Hybrid War against Ukraine (+18) "

"On August 19, 2016 InformNapalm international volunteer community published an investigation and an exclusive radio intercept of telephone conversations of a Russian Armed Forces Lieutenant-Colonel Stanislav Yershov."

Bashi-bazooks within the Muslim cultural domain convicts during a time of war released with the proviso that they join irregular military forces active in the combat and see action.

THE RUSSIAN AT THIS VERY MOMENT MAKING USE OF SUCH PERSONS IN THE ONGOING CONFLICT BETWEEN UKRAINE AND RUSSIA?

“'… There are lots of cons, lots of fucking escaped cons from Russia here' – this phrase is yet another confirmation of the use of Russian criminal convicts as the personnel for the 'armed forces' of LPR [Luhansk People’s Republic] and DPR [Donetsk People's Republic]. Yershov goes on to promise his colleague 'a wealth of experience in working with this riff-raff', once he gets to his destination. Paratroopers from the 80th Lviv Air Assault Brigade (AAB) [Ukrainian] showed InformNapalm editors photos of the 'militiamen' captured near Svitlodarsk. All of them bore tattoos, typical for the Russian criminal subculture."

Russian convict art form I believe as during the period of the GULAG. Nothing has changed much from that time? See the Internet images a collection of such "art". Prisoners captured in the war between Russian and Ukraine are examined for such "decoration" as SOP?

Such persons hardly ever making for good soldiers. A "wealth of experience" in commanding such men to mean a lot of experience in handling BAD!

See previous blog entries the topic of which was the use of criminal elements as soldiers during a time of war, both current and historical:

http://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2016/05/bashi-bazook-syria.html

http://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/06/ghosts.html

http://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2014/03/frenchmen.html

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