Putin's government, with the help of his buddy Prigozhin has emptied Russian prisons to get enough cannon fodder to stop the Ukrainian counterattack. The deal is, if a convict can survive six months of combat, his remaining sentence is forgiven.
But if you look at this deal from an ethical and moral standpoint, you can see it has serious problems. First, from the perspective of the convict, it amounts to little more than trading his remaining sentence in return for murdering Ukrainians. From the standpoint of the Russian government, it amounts to coercing its citizen to murder a citizen of another country in exchange for reducing the sentence for a capital crime. Either way you look at it, it's immoral.
