Russia Creating Assault Battalion From Hepatitis, HIV Patients

• 9.04.2025, 8:24

The task is to dispose of them on the battlefield.

The Russian military are creating an assault battalion from patients with hepatitis and HIV. They are being trained in training centres in the temporarily occupied territories of Crimea, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions. The speaker of the defence forces of the south of Ukraine Vladyslav Voloshyn said about this on air of the TV marathon.

‘According to our intelligence, the enemy is now creating an assault battalion of patients with hepatitis and other diseases, such as HIV, other incurable diseases,’ Voloshyn said.

The speaker noted that this indicates the Russians' intention to ’simply dispose of them on the battlefield.’

According to Voloshyn, these fighters are trained in training centres in the temporarily occupied territories of Crimea, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, so they are no longer ‘cannon fodder’ but trained fighters. However, as the speaker noted, Russia ‘does not spare’ such trained soldiers either.