‘I’m a person again’: the Ukrainian convicts recruited to fight the war
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Mon, 22 Jul 2024 07:00:25 +0300
Kyiv has freed 3,800 prisoners early to plug gaps in its army as military outfits compete to attract suitable convictsLast year, Volodymyr Prysiazhniuk quarrelled with his fatherinlaw, Yuriy.
Both men were drunk.
Id had a litre of beer, Prysiazhniuk recalled.
The row escalated and he punched Yuriy twice in the head.
The older man fell over dead.
In court Prysiazhuiuk admitted his guilt and told the judge he had called an ambulance.
He got eight years for manslaughter.Prysiazhniuk had reconciled himself to a long period behind bars.
In June, however, he walked out of penal colony number 67, in the western Ukrainian town of Sokyriany, and got on to a bus.
Several other inmates joined him.
They said farewell to the Sovietera jail, with its guard tower and salmon pink walls, and were driven to a military camp in the southeast of the country.
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