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Actually, as long as France remains silent on the matter, the Ottoman Empire won't know whether their missing troops were captured or killed in action, and in the end, they will typically be processed as casualties.
Moreover, over in New Zealand, thanks to the enthusiastic assistance of the Maori people, the town has basically been completed. Initially, a few thousand of the Tunisian Guards sent over as laborers managed to survive; if necessary, they could be dispatched to Donbass at any time.
Typically, the biggest obstacle in developing a barren area like Donbass is manpower. Fortunately, Joseph had no shortage of free labor at his disposal.
*In this era, there was no such thing as the Geneva Convention. Prisoners of war had absolutely no human rights; even if they worked themselves to death in Russia, no one cared in the slightest.*