[tcrlaf]

Ukraine has been using criminals as cannon-fodder for quite a while:

Ukrainian lawmaker admits half Azov battalion fighting in Donbass composed of criminals
Read more: http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_06_24/Ukrainian-lawmaker-admits-half-Azov-battalion-fighting-in-Donbass-composed-of-criminals-3274/

[forgotten man]

Stalin used penal battalions for clearing minefields with thier feet.

[Gay State Conservative]

This is all made possible by Osama Obama’s pledge of “flexibility” to Vlad Putin.Vlad would never have pulled a stunt like this with President Reagan or Bush Sr or Jr.

[1rudeboy]

Here's the part I find most disturbing:

The rebel commander, known by his nickname, Lukich, said he treated the detainees humanely. The practice achieves two objectives, he said, imposing the social rules infused with Russian Orthodox Christian values of the new state, while helping the city’s defenses. Drug addicts are summarily sentenced to trench digging.

Jeepers, who do these guys think they are, Muslims?

[lodi90]

Here’s another Putinist slaver story from today:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/11014783/British-student-forced-into-slave-labour-in-Eastern-Ukraine.html

[demshateGod]

So, the rebels aren’t the Sons of Liberty so many around here say they are? I’m shocked.