The Russian defense ministry is preparing a law that will severely limit the ability of soldiers wounded in combat or infected with serious disease to seek separation from the service and instead force them to continue to serve and even to be returned immediately to the front lines.

The measure, the text of which is available at regulation.gov.ru/projects/169064/ and discussed in detail at ehorussia.com/new/node/34848, appears to put in the form of law what have been a number of disturbing practices that the Russian army has practiced during Putin’s expanded war in Ukraine.

It is thus disturbing not only because it takes away rights that Russian soldiers had........

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