 Russian Defence Ministry starts recruiting HIV-positive people for war. The Russian Redut Private Military Company, which reports to the main directorate of the general staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, has begun recruiting HIV-positive mercenaries for the war in Ukraine. Vasniy Istori, a Russian media outlet, reported this. Recruiters have begun to make announcements in Russian social media that they would accept men with HIV and hepatitis. Their contracts would be concluded for six months. The salary is Rubles $230,000 or $2,542, and there is a possibility of receiving bonuses. It is stated that they will accept mercenaries similar to the Umbrella Division, which existed in the Wagner Group and in which people with HIV and hepatitis served. A journalist responded to the ad and introduced himself as a man with HIV who wanted to go to war. The recruiter informed him that any contract would be concluded with Redut Private Military Company. He specified that a volunteer with HIV needs to take his medicines for antiretroviral therapy with him. We will only provide you with what you will be fighting with. You will have to buy medicines in Donetsk. We will not supply them. HIV-positive and hepatitis patients have not officially concluded a contract with the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation.