A developmentally delayed prisoner was recruited to fight in the war. He cannot read, and he had several months left until the end of his sentence.
An illiterate prisoner with developmental delays, 25-year-old Semyon Karmanov from Kemerovo, who had several months left of his sentence, was recruited to fight in the war in Ukraine. Mediazona writes about this, whose journalists spoke with Karmanov’s relatives. They say he can't read. According to the publication, he served time in maximum security IK-1 in the Kuzbass Mariinsk after he found someone else’s bank card and used it to pay for pancakes, coffee and flowers for his mother.