Lucky Soldiers Good luck: As Russia recruits foreigners for war - Defense 24

In this regard, the Polish Military Reporter and Defense Journalist 24 Michal Brushevsky published material on February 1 about how the "dark -skinned volunteers" get into the ranks of Putin troops. The author of the publication drew attention to the reporting of the Turkish media near the building of the Embassy of Ethiopia in Moscow, where there was a long queue of men.

One of them said that he intended to "try luck" in the ranks of private companies or Russian troops, and the motivation for this decision was $ 2000. Brushevski recalled a case with one student from Zambia, who was called Nathan Lmekhani Nyrenda. He died in September 2022, after he was probably recruited at Wagner PEC from the colony where he served his sentence for drug sale.

The Polish observer notes that the Zambian was fully aware of, signing a contract with Wagner, which could turn into such cooperation. However, his decision was the result of despair, blackmail and those customs in Russian prisons in combination with racism widespread in the Russian Federation. Brushevsky also mentioned the case with Somali citizen, who was recruited to the Russian Armed Forces, most likely on the Finnish border and sent to the war in Ukraine.

Probably, the Russian services at first wanted to "transport" it to Finland, but when Finland closed the border, the migrant found himself in the ranks of the invaders. "I applied for service in the army because I was going to receive money. I was promised that I would serve in Russia. In a month I had to get a Russian passport. I seem to have signed a contract for a year, but he was Russian, so I was nothing He did not understand, "he told in an interview.

According to Somali, for the money that the Russians promised him, he could build a house at home - the sums he called him seemed to be huge. However, the sobering came when the man came directly to the front. Instead of being in the rear, the African was sent to the front. "I was stunned when I was on the front. It was not what I imagined. I had to be in the back positions," the African confessed.

He will later be captured by Ukrainian fighters, and will tell that Russian propagandists thanked him and the same as he, mercenary, giving gloves. The African explains that these frames were made later, when it became clear where he got. Earlier it was reported that the Russians brought mercenaries from Malaysia to the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk region.