'This is Russia's forever war,' said Francis Scarr, a BBC Monitoring journalist, commenting on reports of the recruitment.
's war might drag on for another year, according to Russian prisoners' rights activist Olga Romanova.
Romanova, director of the prisoner rights group Russia Behind Bars, wrote on Telegram on Saturday that the defense ministry has been recruiting prisoners to fight in Ukraine since February. The recruits would sign contracts with the ministry to fight for six months, but this period has now been extended to 18 months, Romanova said citing reports from the Sverdlovsk and Yaroslavl regions in Russia.
"New about the recruitment of prisoners. Since February, this has been done mainly by the Ministry of Defense. They report from two regions, Sverdlovsk and Yaroslavl: they began to sign contracts with prisoners not for 6 months, as it was before, but for 18. That is, they expect to fight next year as well," the activist wrote on Telegram.was unable to independently verify whether or not the length of the contracts have been extended.
A member of Ukraine's 10th Mountain Brigade looks towards the horizon before firing on Russian troops on March 2 in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine. Russian prisoners are now signing contracts with the Russia's defense ministry to fight in Ukraine for an extended period of time, indicating that Russian President Vladimir Putin's war might drag on for another year, according to Russian prisoners' rights activist Olga Romanova.
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