The Russians use residents of the occupied territories to replenish the personnel of the troops

The Russians are trying to create reserves from local residents of the temporarily occupied territories. Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Hanna Malyar reported.

The goal is to urgently replenish the front-line units of their troops, which are daily experiencing heavy losses in manpower.

In some settlements on the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine, the Russian invaders carry out raids and detain local residents.

During roundups, all detainees are checked for loyalty to the Russian regime, and men who are old enough to be called up for military service are arrested, mostly on false pretexts.

As a rule, those arrested in this way are sent to specially equipped field camps, in which criminals brought from Russian prisons who have agreed to participate in hostilities are already being held.

Currently, several such camps have been set up near the settlements of Rohove and Mozhnikivka in the Luhansk region, to which batches of recruited prisoners are delivered under convoy from Russia.

Local men who were detained for minor offenses and did not agree to support the occupiers are being held together with them.

By the end of May, the number of personnel in the camps is expected to increase with the arrival of two more batches of prisoners from Russia, convicted mainly for committing murders with particular cruelty.

Today, there are more than 800 people in these camps, who are undergoing intensive combat training, which is planned to be completed within one month. After the prisoners undergo a combat training course, contracts will be concluded with them, which provide for mandatory participation in combat operations on the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine.