At a rural penal colony in southeast Ukraine, several convicts stand assembled under barbed wire to hear an army recruiter offer them a shot at parole. In return, they must join the grueling fight against Russia. Ukraine is expanding the draft to cope with acute battlefield shortages more than two years into fighting against Russia’s full-scale invasion.
New York man Lu Jianwang was convicted of helping run a secret Chinese government-linked police station in Manhattan used to monitor dissidents abroad....