In the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine, it was reported that the Russian military leadership has decided to form assault units from convicts suffering from hepatitis B and C and send them to war.
This was reported by the press service of the GUR.
“The corresponding order from the Minister of Defense of the aggressor state, Russia, Belousov No. 610, dated October 10, 2024, excludes hepatitis C from the list of diseases that disqualify individuals from military service,” the statement reads.
It is noted that a special procedure has been approved for the recruitment of units consisting of convicts with hepatitis, who are designated as “contingent C” in the document.
According to the GUR, before being sent to the front, the sick convicts in the colonies are formally required to receive a hepatitis B vaccine and undergo antiviral therapy for hepatitis C. Russian leaders estimate that their new mobilization decision will allow thousands of convicts to be involved in “meat assaults” in the war against Ukraine.
It is reported that there are about 10,000 “hepatitis patients” in prisons and detention centers within the so-called Central Military District of the Russian Armed Forces, with about 15% expressing a voluntary desire to fight.
According to intelligence, the first four assault companies and two reserve companies made up of sick convicts are being formed within the 1435th and 1437th motorized rifle regiments (the 27th and 15th motorized rifle brigades of the Russian Armed Forces, respectively).
Newly created Russian assault companies named after the hepatitis strains, “B-C,” are planned to be deployed in the temporarily occupied territories of Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
Background. Previously, Mind reported that the first military units from North Korea arrived in the Kursk region. According to intelligence estimates, the total number of North Korean soldiers transferred to Russia is now about 12,000, including 500 officers, among them three generals from Pyongyang.