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🟢 Link to our wonderful website: https://www.rfunews.com/it 🔞 Uncensored and exclusive videos: https://t.me/RFUItaliano 🔵 Support us with a monthly subscription: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT4JL-7_Vecaw9Efs7wf4EA/join 🔵 Support us with the Super Thank You button (next to Like/Share) Today's news concerns the Russian Federation. The lack of volunteers even from the toughest Russian prisons has forced officers to find new ways to coerce inmates. With their backs to the wall, many have decided to try their luck, waiting for the right moment, killing their captors and escaping. The latest incident occurred in the Leningrad region, where nine "volunteer" prisoners, while being transported to the front, murdered their escort and escaped. According to Russian journalists, the group killed the driver and fled into the forests and villages, sparking a manhunt. These men were taken directly from prison and forced into military contracts, part of the dwindling pool of convict recruits used to make up for catastrophic losses at the front. It's important to note that this isn't the first time such an escape has occurred. When Wagner intruded on convict recruitment in 2022, tens of thousands came forward for a chance at pardon and monetary compensation, approximately $21,000 for six months at the front. By the end of 2024, however, this enthusiasm had waned as losses soared, and Russia has since run out of prison volunteers. Between 140,000 and 180,000 convicts were freed to fight in Ukraine, but most died during Bakhmut's bloodbath raids on Avdiivka, and the rest saw enough to know survival was unlikely. By 2025, these recruitments had dropped to the hundreds. Bonuses disappeared, salaries were reduced, and stories of executions spread like wildfire. During interrogation, he explained that he had 11 months left on his sentence when prison investigators suddenly accused him of other crimes he claims he did not commit. Facing additional years of detention and without any legal defense, he signed a military contract to avoid further punishment. His story coincides with reports from Ukrainian intelligence services, which claim that Russia is increasingly using fabricated charges such as discrediting the military, spreading disinformation, or justifying terrorism to pressure prisoners. These charges often stem from staged conversations, recorded by undercover informants seeking privileges. In the first half of 2025, over 100 such convictions were documented. Additional unethical measures, such as various forms of harassment and harsh deprivation, including limiting water to three liters a week, are frequently used to coerce signatures. Because a March 2024 law allows Russian prosecutors to suspend criminal cases if a prisoner enlists, inmates are effectively told that refusal means solitary confinement, violence, and decades added to their sentences, while conversely, signing as a volunteer offers at least a theoretical chance of survival. This desperation has created a third path that a growing number of inmates are now attempting: sign, get transferred, and escape at the first opportunity, even if it means killing the guards. Many inmates recognize that, while the front is likely deadly, remaining in detention on fabricated charges guarantees death behind bars. Escaping offers a respite from both the humiliation of prison and the brutality of frontline commanders, known for executing those who hesitate, retreat, or refuse orders. In general, the Russian practice of replenishing the ranks with prisoners is crumbling, and officials are improvising increasingly coercive measures to maintain the flow. This accelerates the breakdown of discipline within penal colonies, pushing inmates toward violent rebellions and escape attempts. As prisoners realize that they have a better chance of surviving on the run than on the Ukrainian front, and especially in prison, incidents such as the killing of escorts and mass escapes will become more frequent. The cruelty of Russian military recruiters has surpassed even that of prison guards, leaving inmates with nothing to lose and turning them into a source of internal instability.