Using conscripts and prison inmates, Russia doubles its forces in Ukraine
Briefly

Recently mobilized Russian soldiers prepare to board a train at a railway station in Tyumen, Russia, on Dec. 2. (AP) (AP)RIGA, Latvia - Despite heavy combat losses over ten months of brutal war, Russia now has more than double the number of troops poised to fight in Ukraine as it did when it invaded in February, including thousands of convicts released from prison and conscripts from a controversial mobilization drive this fall.
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