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Russia Reportedly Deploying Women in Frontline Assault Units as Losses Mount, ATESH Partisans Claim
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Partisan group ATESH says Russia’s 506th motorized-rifle regiment is forming female assault companies on the Pokrovsk front, and that women are also being used as infiltrators—claims that underscore, the group says, the Kremlin’s personnel shortages and desperation, according to the group’s report on October 24.
According to messages from ATESH’s agents embedded in the 506th, regimental command has begun recruiting or ordering women into frontline assault units to make up for heavy losses among contract soldiers and mercenaries.
The partisan group framed the move as evidence Moscow is “ready to send anyone to the slaughter,” and said women are also being prepared for covert roles behind Ukrainian lines.
ATESH alleges that some women assigned to storm formations are instructed, if an assault fails, to don civilian clothes and blend in with the local population to carry out reconnaissance and report Ukrainian troop movements back to Russian commanders.
The group added that conditions for these fighters are dire: “for these women, there is no way back. Their lives depend solely on the ‘mercy’ of their commanders.”
ATESH said its inside sources continue to forward details on troop movements, equipment locations, and preparations for additional assaults by the 506th.
In a direct appeal, the partisan group urged members of the regiment—particularly the women being sent into combat—not to follow what it called “criminal orders,” saying their lives are “more important than these cynical plans.”
Earlier, reports emerged that the Russian command was continuing to secretly mobilize residents from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine to replenish its units, directly contradicting its own official statements.
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