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Russian prisoners sent to factory to build tanks

Tuesday, 29 November 2022, 18:32
Russian prisoners sent to factory to build tanks

250 convicts sentenced to forced labour, serving their sentences in Nizhny Tagil, will be employed at UralVagonZavod, the largest tank factory [in the world - ed.].

Source: Press service of the Federal Penitentiary Service in Sverdlovsk Oblast (Russia); Important Stories, an independent Russian investigative reporting media outlet

Details: It is noted that the prisoners will work as machine tool operators, drill operators, turners, milling machine operators, grinding machine operators, electric welders, mechanics and crane operators.

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The media specify that the prisoners will be involved in auxiliary work and will not have access to classified information.

Reference:Uralvagonzavod is the only factory in Russia that produces T-72 and T-90 tanks. After the start of the war, production switched to a three-shift working schedule, and in August the factory began to work around the clock.

Reminder: Previously, the head of Rostec (Uralvagonzavod’s parent company) said that the plant's employees work "in three or four shifts": up to 40% of Russian tanks have been destroyed in the war with Ukraine.

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