Russia intends to recruit more than a hundred thousand professional recruits and prisoners to “avoid further unpopular mobilisations”, the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported.

Andriy Yermak, a top Ukrainian official, described the latter group as “zombies” used to “fuel the madness” of Vladimir Putin.

Russia’s Ministry of Defence started utilizing prisoners and labour camp detainees after observing the Wagner Group’s profitable use of this tactic.

The ex-convicts, a few of them murderers and rapists, be a part of Storm Z models and are sometimes used as expendable cannon fodder, preventing forward of the primary line of defence and in different extraordinarily harmful areas.

But in its newest replace, the MoD spoke at odds to the Ukrainian army, who claimed that Russia was planning a mass mobilisation of as much as 700,000 conscripts.

The British MoD stated the “Russian authorities will likely seek to avoid further unpopular mobilisations” given employee shortages on the mainland, therefore using contracted males and prisoners.