INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russia has ended its practice of granting presidential pardons to prisoners who agree to fight in Ukraine, instead offering them conditional
recruiting fighters from Russian prisons in the summer of 2022, a process that was taken over by the Defense Ministry in early 2023
recruited prisoners fight under the same terms as regular contract soldiers and mobilized troops, who are also not allowed to return home
wrote.According to BBC Russian, prisoners are granted conditional release, a provision that allows prisoners to be released until the end of
their sentence if the court concludes that the person does not need to stay in prison to be reformed.Dozens of convicts who were pardoned
for fighting in Ukraine have returned home and committed new crimes, including rapes and murders, according to media reports.The Kremlin
pardon decrees have been made secret.Putin confirmed in June that he was "signing pardon decrees" for prisoners fighting in the war
