The Kremlin has decided to form assault units from convicts with hepatitis “B” and “C” and send them to the war against Ukraine.
This is reported by the Main Directorate of intelligence of the Ministry of defense of Ukraine.
“The corresponding order of the Minister of Defense of the aggressor state Belousov № 610, dated October 10, 2024, excludes hepatitis C from the list of diseases, the presence of which does not allow to perform military service.
A special order of organization and admission to the Russian occupation army has been approved for manning units of hepatitis-infected prisoners. Those infected with hepatitis are labeled in the document as “contingent ‘C’,” the report says.
The Russians estimate that their new mobilization solution will make it possible to involve thousands of prisoners in the assaults.
“For example, in prisons and isolation centers on the territory of the so-called Central Military District of the Russian Armed Forces there are about 10 thousand “hepatitisniki” – a voluntary desire to fight of them expressed about 15%,” the GUR reports.
The Russians are forming the first four assault companies and two reserve companies from sick convicts as part of the 1435th and 1437th motorized rifle regiments (27th and 15th motorized rifle brigades of the Russian Armed Forces, respectively).
According to intelligence reports, the newly formed Russian “B-C” assault companies, named after hepcats, are planned to be deployed in the temporarily occupied territories of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
“So, catastrophic losses and the fear of protests in major cities, which the announcement of general mobilization may cause, force Moscow to ‘shovel out’ for criminal warfare all the sickly filth from the prisons,” the intelligence summed up.