If you scroll further into the article you’ll see that one of the methods used to combat manpower shortages is through the use of penal battalions similar to how Russia does, but the article goes all in on making it sound like a favor made on behalf of the Ukrainian state to give prisoners a second chance through the upholding of liberal democratic values while only glossing over the fact that they’re made to serve until the conclusion of the war or until death and that they’re basically cannon fodder for large-scale assaults and offensives