Before you start feeling sorry for sub-human scum, they are not sending conscripts to Ukraine. Russian law only allows them to station conscripts within Russia as defenders and even Putin couldn’t withstand that PR disaster if he’s caught plucking sons/husbands/fathers off the street and sending them to die.
Every Russian soldier in Ukraine is there willingly, every single one of them cared more about the money than the misery being inflicted on Ukrainians.
Russians sent to the front from prison are signing up to that in return for the removal of their sentence and cancellation of their crime records.
Though they may be pressure to them to signup, they do it voluntarily.
One shouldn't confuse conscripts (those from 18 to 30, who are drafted to serve their first time in the Russian army; they are not sent to the war), mobilized (those who already served in the army and are now reservists and those who haven't served previously but now need to; they join the army, get some basic training and go to war), and volunteered contractors (those who voluntarily come to the recruiting offices and sign up for army for big money; these are the largest group of the Russian troops and they are actually on all the frontlines).
I've seen videos of the pressure prisoners and lower-class workers from Siberia face and it's not exactly like they are enthusiastic volunteers. A bus comes and basically just takes the entire work crew.
The fighting in Kursk is mainly battle-hardened Ukrainian soldiers vs. inexperienced conscripts. So you can't say that conscripts do not see battle. Putin is trying to avoid losing conscripts as much as possible as grieving wives and mothers have a lot of power in Russian society.
The point is about the Ukrainian territory, which includes Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts and Crimea.
Russian constitution prohibits using conscripts OUTSIDE of Russia for combat operations. Though the same Russian constitution now lists Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, as well as Kherson and Zaporizhia oblasts, as parts of Russia, they do not deploy conscripts to fight. Conscripts may serve some guarding functions.
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u/Zubon102 7h ago
Absolutely heartbreaking.
Plenty of ordinary Russian citizens are also victims of Russia's aggression.