The Russian Federation will attract the work of prisoners to increase the production of weapons in the war against Ukraine, the British Ministry of Defense reports with reference to intelligence data.
In particular, the Russian defense sector is very likely to resort to the use of the labor of convicts in order to satisfy the needs of production in wartime.
So, in November 2022, the largest Russian manufacturer of Tanks Uralvagonzavod said in the media that he would take 250 convicts after meeting with the Federal Service for the Penitentiary of the Russian Federation.