Russian prison authorities want to deploy 250 prisoners sentenced to forced labor at a weapons factory in the Urals. The forced laborers are said to work as machine and crane operators, turners and welders at the Uralvagonzavod company in the city of Nizhny Tagil.
According to reports in the Russian media, the work comes with some privileges. The prisoners are not in cells, but in a dormitory with relatives.
In addition to the usual taxes, only a rate of five to twenty percent is deducted from their salary as a penalty.
Uralvagonzavod is one of the largest defense companies, known for producing main battle tanks from the T-72 to the new T-14. After the outbreak of war in Ukraine, a three-shift system was introduced to increase production.
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“NATO will not run out of tanks”
According to Lithuanian sources, NATO has enough tanks that it could hand over to Ukraine. “NATO is not short of tanks,” said Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis before meeting his NATO colleagues in Bucharest. “So if we increase the supply of tanks sent to Ukraine, NATO has a chance to keep supplies going.” The Russian offensive war suffers significantly greater losses than expected.
NATO expects more Russian attacks on Ukraine in the coming months. President Vladimir Putin wants to “use winter as a weapon of war,” Alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said (see video above).
Kiev under fire, attacks in Donetsk
At noon on Tuesday afternoon, an air raid siren sounded throughout Ukraine that lasted for twelve minutes in the capital Kiev. There was initially no information about actual missile hits. However, Ukraine has feared for days a similar long-range missile attack as last week, when the power supply almost collapsed throughout the country. According to the Russian army, they continue to attack Ukrainian troops at the front in the Donetsk region.
Source: Krone
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