Putin signs law giving criminal defendants immunity if they join the army

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/10/02/russia-criminal-immunity-military-contract/

44 Comments

  1. Please send every military available asset to Ukraine. Russia is crumbling and zero more Ukrainians should suffer because of Putins wrath.

  2. OkayButFoRealz on

    Next step: Frivolous law signings and mass arrests?

    Aka conscription with extra steps..

  3. So they’re just adding retroactivity to the criminal immunity of their soldiers.

    Keep beating that drum, Putin.  It’ll make it harder to tell if the boots are marching toward or away from you.

  4. The fine print probably says: “immunity for crimes committed within Ukraine”. But they probably aren’t making it back anyways.

  5. To defeat “criminals”, they will deploy criminals… (Criminals of their own laws)

    The eyes of the world are upon them, and it’s dismaying

  6. secretusername555 on

    Maybe the plan all along is to reduce numbers of people to get rid of the bad Apples. Once he’s got enough killed he may retreat.

  7. StressfulRiceball on

    So… Steal money, send offshore, go to jail, deploy to Ukraine, defect to Ukraine using offshore money, repeat

    Infinite money glitch?

  8. Apparently refusing to submit to conscription is a criminal offense for which joining the army would give immunity 🤔🙃

  9. So anyone dragged to court system can choose their punishment method to be torture in the army and execution by Ukrainian drone.

  10. I watched a video translating a few articles from Russian media. Due to prison conditions even people who got there because of their anti-war or anti-government rhetoric sign up for the army. People prefer a chance on the front lines than to rot there. They even streamlined the process; you can enlist in the army without a court sentence. What a wonderful death industry they created there. Citizen goes in, cargo 200 goes out.

  11. Seems like a good time to go into crime if you are Russian. Get caught. Get sent to Ukraine. Steal a piece of heavy equipment and sell it to Ukraine and defect there. Then you no longer have to be Russian, and if you die trying you still no longer have to be Russian.

  12. It’s important to note that with the Russian criminal justice system, it is likely that most of those individuals are likely in jail for having differing political opinions as the government or simply lacked the funds needed to pay a bribe.

  13. Stalin did this during WW2 where he would offer gulag prisoners freedom if they fought in the war.

    After the war most of the soldiers got sent back to the gulag lol

  14. killabeesplease on

    In a twist, Putin, himself a criminal of the highest order, heads straight to the front lines