Tens of thousands of male convicts have been freed to fight in Ukraine. It is not clear if a small contingent of female volunteers released from a prison portends wider use of female soldiers.
Russia released a group of women from a prison in late May to join the fighting in Ukraine, according to two former inmates who maintain contact with those still there, potentially signaling a new phase in the Kremlin’s use of criminals in its war effort.
Apparently Germany did have women's auxiliaries, and some of those operated flak weapons against bombing raids, and there were some nurses near the front lines, albeit not in a combat role directly.
From a quick skim of that article, it sounds like the only time that women in states other than the Soviet Union were in combat is if they were serving in some sort of auxiliary unit (e.g. nurses) that were near the front lines, serving in an anti-aircraft role, as kind of a last-ditch move when a country was being overrun (e.g. Poland) and women's auxiliaries assigned to secondary defenses wound up in combat. I remember that we (the US) had female pilots, but those were doing cargo runs rather than using weapons.
This is yet another sign of the Russian economy booming!
Since everything is going so well, Putin continues his glorious fight for equality!
Now women will have the same rights as men to serve in the meat grinder.
There's absolutely no desperation here... Nothing to see... Move along.
I mean, by that point, the entire lower class is gone. Which makes middle class the new lower class. Things won't change until he starts targeting oligarchs or their families.
full knowledge of the shit they were about to be thrown into
I mostly agree with you, but is there a single military in history that didn't mostly rely on naive kids with zero knowledge of what they were getting themselves into?