400 murderers, s3x offenders shipped off from prison to Ukraine for slaughter

About 400 violent criminals are being shipped off to fight for Russia on the front lines in Ukraine after recruiters promised them a pardon for agreeing to fight in Putin’s war in exchange for six months of service.

Prisoners from penal colonies who signed up for the deal were seen filing into prison vans destined for a ‘training camp’ in the south of Russia.

After perfunctory military instruction the murderers, sex offenders, burglars and other convicts will be sent to the front line following the mass jail release.

Deserters have been warned they will be shot – but those who survive six months will be pardoned by Putin and allowed to resume their lives no matter how heinous their crimes.

The Russian leader and his military commanders are scrambling to recruit as many new fighters as possible without having to introduce mass conscription in a desperate attempt to reinforce dwindling troop numbers across the border.

It comes as close Putin ally Yevgeny Prigozhin, who heads up the infamous private army known as the Wagner Group, personally travelled to a prison in the Mordovia region to deliver a speech encouraging inmates to sign up as mercenaries earlier this week.