Ukraine says Russia sent at least 283 Indonesians to war in nine months. One prisoner’s story shows how
A 49-year-old from Java signed what he was told was a construction contract. Russia then sent him into an assault without training.
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South Africa detains nine foreigners suspected of trying to join Russia’s war against Ukraine
Interpol and local law enforcement agencies took part in the investigation.
He drove a taxi in Jakarta and once worked in the US. Russia trained him as a machine gunner for a week and a half, then sent him into his first and last battle
Ukraine’s military intelligence says Russian recruiters reached the Indonesian through his job search and moved him from a contract signing near Moscow to the front in a matter of weeks.
UN commission finds Russia’s grid strikes are crimes against humanity, citing last winter at minus 21°C. Now they’re intensifying
The commission concluded the strikes followed a state policy to deprive civilians of power and cause suffering, and noted that Russian authorities had openly announced further attacks and referred to a plan to carry them out.
Kazakhstan prepares a list for Moscow, Kenya appeals to Kyiv: three governments try to get citizens out of Russia’s war
Kyrgyzstan says some of its migrants are forced into contracts, and Russia told Kenya that unit commanders rule on requests to quit, case by case.
Indonesia is examining whether traffickers put its citizens into Russia’s war on Ukraine
The country's Foreign Ministry has put its overseas missions on establishing how one of its nationals came to serve Moscow's forces.
Ukraine’s intelligence: Russia is running its Nepal, Cuba, Kenya, and India recruitment scheme in Indonesia now
Ukraine's foreign intelligence says it holds documents on at least eight recruited Indonesian citizens.
Kenya and South Africa went first, and now Ghana accuses Russia of luring Ghanaians into war
The methods drawing foreigners toward the front range from bogus contracts to political intrigue across Africa.
Nearly 500 Africans recruited into Russia’s army have died, Ukraine says
Ukraine has identified almost 3,000 recruits from 37 countries, including 35 now held as prisoners of war.
Botswana warns its people about Russian job scams that end in the trenches against Ukraine
Officials say they keep getting distress calls from citizens already at the front, describing dangerous conditions they never signed up for.
From Russia’s contract to death in about month: Cameroon student and 23-year-old were found dead in Ukraine
Ukrainian intelligence identified two Cameroonians killed on the front weeks after signing Russian army contracts. HUR puts Cameroon's war dead at 106.
He was saving 99 goats’ worth of bride price. Russia sent him to die in Ukraine instead
A captured Kenyan told a Ukrainian journalist he signed what he believed was a security guard contract and learned he was in the Russian army only when they handed him a uniform.
Over 1,000 Kenyans lured into Russia’s war in Ukraine, 50+ Ghanaians killed there — three governments confirmed it, none confronted Moscow
Kenya's Foreign Minister called himself "pragmatic and realistic" ahead of his Moscow trip, saying the visit was "not a confrontation."
AP: Russia traffics Bangladeshi workers to frontlines with fake job offers
Russia promised them jobs. Instead, they were sent to die.
Russia lured Colombians with $2,500 welding jobs, confiscated their passports, and sent them to storm Pokrovsk
Three of seven are already dead. The survivors surrendered to Ukraine without firing a shot.
Russia’s war needs bodies: Kenyan recruits rescued before being shipped to Ukraine frontline
A multi-agency raid near Nairobi exposed a recruitment scheme using fake Moscow job offers to funnel men to the front.
Moscow recruits African women to produce drones in horrific conditions — investigation exposes large-scale fraud
Russia is expanding the production of drones in Tatarstan, using African and Asian women who are deceived into taking dangerous jobs in the Alabuga special economic zone.
Eight Indians killed while fighting against Ukraine in Russian army
The Indian government also revealed that 63 of its citizens are actively pursuing early release from service in the Russian military.
US urges Ukraine to strengthen prosecution and conviction of human traffickers, report says
The US State Department's 2024 Trafficking in Persons Report on Ukraine emphasizes the need for vigorous prosecution and conviction of human traffickers and complicit officials to combat the persistent issue of human trafficking in Ukraine, especially exacerbated after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Reuters: Nepal detains 10 suspects for allegedly recruiting youths into Russian army
Nepal arrests 10 individuals involved in a human smuggling ring, deceiving young people into recruitment into the Russian armed forces.