Russian President Vladimir Putin is actively recruiting Ukrainian civilians infected with HIV, hepatitis, syphilis and other diseases from occupied regions in a desperate attempt to feed his war machine — with sick recruitment ads promising life-saving healthcare to the sick as their “last chance.”

Reports of HIV infections in the Russian military have skyrocketed since it invaded Ukraine in 2022, with cases increasing by 13 times within the first year of the war and then 20 times by the end of 2023, a recent report from Carnegie Politika found.

And while many of those are coming from the Russian home front — where the floundering military has been dredging for bodies to throw into the meatgrinder — Putin appears to also be withholding healthcare access in occupied Ukrainian territor

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