Where you hear of rapes by advancing troops, these typically are committed by convicted offenders and not "regulars". Generally, they can be held accountable up to and including being shot on the spot under martial law. In the case of the [[TCC]] and [[Ukraine]]'s manpower shortage as of 2026, the prisons have long been emptied of their pre-2022 population. So the [[TCC]] is now rounding up local people with criminal records, most who have served their terms and, in many cases, completed their sentence long ago. Based on the size of a nation's criminal population, the fighting can go on for many years. | Where you hear of rapes by advancing troops, these typically are committed by convicted offenders and not "regulars". Generally, they can be held accountable up to and including being shot on the spot under martial law. In the case of the [[TCC]] and [[Ukraine]]'s manpower shortage as of 2026, the prisons have long been emptied of their pre-2022 population. So the [[TCC]] is now rounding up local people with criminal records, most who have served their terms and, in many cases, completed their sentence long ago. Based on the size of a nation's criminal population, the fighting can go on for many years. |