He escaped on the way to his first combat mission and hid in the woods near Kharkiv, where he was captured and eventually freed by the Ukrainian military in September. In September, Kenyan authorities arrested a Russian Embassy employee in Nairobi and his Kenyan accomplice, accused of recruiting local men as mercenaries to ship them to the battlefield. With the heavy battleground losses estimated to be more than one million since the start of the war, Moscow has enlisted thousands of North Korean troops and even conned their own, luring young Russian men with ads for cushy army jobs like drivers or cooks — then shipping them straight to the front lines.
Author: Gabrielle Fahmy
Published at: 2025-11-08 20:48:30
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