Kremlin's Global Recruiting Network: How Russia Hunts People in Poor Countries to Feed Ukraine's War · Global Voices
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Russia has built an extensive recruitment network targeting foreign citizens from Asia, Africa and Latin America. Recruitments are often attracted to promises of civilian employment, study opportunities or accelerated citizenship, so that they are subsequently put to sign military contracts and sent to combat areas. Ukraine estimates that at least 27,000 foreigners from over 130 countries have joined Russia's war effort through such schemes.
Young men from Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America are being lured into war for Russia via social media with promises of well-paid work as actors, drivers or something completely different.; Several of the recruited young men have lost their lives.; This is shown by a comprehensive study conducted by the African NGO Code for Africa.; The organization has identified 33 recruitment groups that are paid to provide soldiers for the Russi…
Russia is using digital platforms and Western technology to recruit foreign fighters for its war in Ukraine, according to a new investigation. The recruitment campaigns target people from Africa, Asia and Belarus, often without mentioning the war at all. They offer candidates jobs in construction, security services and the film industry, and then direct them towards military contracts.
Young foreign men could be targeted by recruitment campaigns linked to Russia, under cover of job offers or castings. According to Polistico Europe, these operations are based on American and European digital technologies and infrastructures.
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