Russia sends Africans to fight in Ukraine - defenceWeb

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Russia sends Africans to fight in Ukraine - defenceWeb

Among a handful of prisoners of war captured in Ukraine after fighting for Russia, a young Somali man stood out. He said he joined the army to give his family a “good future,” and was told he would be a “helper” doing logistics and first aid. He did not expect to be sent to the front lines. “I didn’t know that I would be in the first line,” the unidentified man said during a news conference in Kyiv on March 15. “I was just dropped there without …