In the Kharkiv region, the Ukrainian Armed Forces began to create detachments of former prisoners

The command of the artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the Kharkiv region forms separate calculations from among former prisoners, which are used to carry out the tasks of the barrage detachments. This was reported on June 1 in the Russian law enforcement agencies.

It is specified that such groups are used to conduct barrage fire in certain sections of the line of contact.

"The command of the artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine operating in the Kharkiv region is actively forming separate calculations from among former prisoners to conduct barrage fire," RIA Novosti reports.

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