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☆ Russia says a battalion made up of Ukrainian prisoners of war is about to be sent to fight against their own country
  + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Ukrainian prisoners of war will soon be fighting against their own country, Russian state media says. The move could violate the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War. AdvertisementAdvertisementRussia says a battalion of Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) will soon be sent to the front lines, state media said in a report on how they will fight against their own country. On November 7, Russian state media outlet RIA Novosti said Ukrainian POWs in the "Bogdan Khmelnitsky" battalion swore an oath of allegiance to Russia and would soon deploy into battle. STRINGER/AFP via Getty ImagesThe details surrounding the coming deployment of Ukrainian POWs are murky.
Persons: —, Bogdan Khmelnitsky, Kaskad, ISW, STRINGER Organizations: Geneva Convention, Service, Novosti, Donetsk People's Republic, Institute, Russian University of Special Forces, Getty, RIA Novosti Locations: Russia, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Geneva, Azov, Chechen, Gudermes, Chechnya, Ukraine
☆ A failed war helped bring down the Soviet Union. Now Putin's failing war in Ukraine might set Russia up for a bleak future.
  + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Joy Neumeyer | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +13 min
The Soviet Union's war in Afghanistan and Russia's current war in Ukraine have obvious similarities in their disastrous planning and execution. In the 1990s, Afghanistan veterans' sense of aggrievement fused with that of veterans returning from Boris Yeltsin's war in Chechnya. Putin's war, Russia's futurePutin meets soldiers at a military training center outside the town of Ryazan in October. While glasnost-era revelations about the Soviet war shocked the country into supporting withdrawal, these days there is little left to expose. Public self-criticism surrounding the Soviet war in Afghanistan, however brief and contested, shows that reassessment of imperial ambitions is possible.
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