Would it be possible for the UKES to “turn” these Russian troops to the Uke cause and get them to fight on the side of Ukraine?
Most of these prisoners are 20 something year old conscripts from Moscow, St Petersburg and Belgorod, not the typical Muslim cannon fodder used by Russia. The Moscow moms are already asking why they haven’t heard from their sons in 3 days.
Possible, unlikely.
More likely when they are repatriated they'll be shipped to Siberia.
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I don’t think the Ukes are interested in “turning” Russians. They just want the Russians to go home. Germany had SS foreign divisions with national identification, including French (last to surrender in Berlin, by the way), Dutch, Norwegian, Russian, and Indian nationalist, (the Hindu Tigers), fighting the Soviet Union.
None of that here.