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Two Ukrainian soldiers walk behind one another on a dirty street.
Ukrainian soldiers walk along a street in the area of the heaviest battles with the Russian invaders in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, on March 15, 2023.

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  • Ukrainian soldiers have been fending off Russian forces for more than seven months in Bakhmut.
  • Russia's paramilitary organization, Wagner Group, is sending convicts to the frontlines in the city.
  • A Ukrainian soldier told BBC that using prisoners is "cruel, immoral, but effective."

Prisoners are being sent to die on the frontlines just to give Russian forces a strategic advantage, a Ukrainian soldier stationed in the eastern Donetsk region told BBC.

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Military & Defense, News, Wagner Group, Bakhmut, Ukraine, Russia
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