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You know who else freed prisoners? https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-releases-prisoners-combat-e...

Including members of the Ukrainian “Tornado battalion”, previously imprisoned by Ukraine for the rape and murder of civilians (including children) in the east: https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-tornado-battalion-rogue-para...

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Yes the same thing. Probably the thinking is along the lines "better for criminals to die instead of innocent people and if they die we don't have to pay for their accommodation and the society will have to worry about one predator less."

Probably they use criminals in the most risky of situations.

Maybe it's not very moral but the politicians are more worried about their calculations than about morals. Most of the times the difference between some politicians and criminals is just on which side of the bars they are.

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