Since both Russia and Ukraine now have prisoners in their military force, how likely it is to have an Ukrainian prisoner serving Russia fighting a Russian prisoner serving Ukraine in the battle field?
this post was submitted on 27 May 2024
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Ukrainian prisoners are volunteering to fight for Ukraine and being forced to fight for Russia.
AFAIK there are no Russian pows serving the Ukrainian military
that's freedom of russia legion and russian volunteer corps. not many of them, low thousands for the former few hundreds for the latter
Supposedly there are former Russian POWs in both the Freedom of Russia Legion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Russia_Legion?#History which fights under the UAF International Legion, and the right wing Russian Volunteer Corps https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/4/23/i-want-to-make-up-for-mistakes-the-russian-pows-fighting-for-ukraine
In the case of that Al Jazeera article, the POW who was recruited was part of a prisoner exchange and was on a bus about go back to Russia.
these aren't POWs, just regular prisoners
Penal battalions vs penal battalions is not a sign the war is going "well" for anyone (except maybe if you can short the prison industrial complex)...