‘No Need to Invite Outsiders’: Leaked Docs Show Russia Quietly Recruited 1,500 Foreign Fighters
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Natalia Sekerina, an employee of the Russia House in Osh, who was detained by the State Committee for National Security (GKNB) of Kyrgyzstan on charges of recruiting mercenaries, was released from jail.
The recruitment of foreign citizens into the Russian army is for the most part non-systemic in nature. From April 2023 to the end of May 2024, the Russian Federation recruited more than 1,500 foreign citizens in Moscow. The largest number of volunteers came from countries in South and East Asia (771 people), according to...
‘No Need to Invite Outsiders’: Leaked Docs Show Russia Quietly Recruited 1,500 Foreign Fighters
The independent news site has identified more than 1,500 foreigners from all over the world who came to Moscow to fight for Russia, and how the Kremlin tried to hide its recruitment process.
In its latest assessment, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence collects information published on 23 April by the Russian journalistic investigative medium iStories, which points to the recruitment in Moscow of more than 1,500 foreigners between April 2023 and May 2024 to combat the war in Ukraine
A leaked Russian database shows that more than 1,500 foreign mercenaries from nearly fifty countries participated in Russia's war in Ukraine from April 2023 to May last year. According to the data, the recruitment process was very streamlined. New volunteers had to provide a photo, passport and other documents before they were accepted into the army. The vast majority of the mercenaries came from Nepal, 603 in total. 64 were from Sri Lanka, 51 f…
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