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[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

In summary, Russia has imported a bunch of North Koreans and Cubans to die in Ukraine, because Russian soldiers are getting killed at a faster rate than they can replace them.

They need foreigners to be replacement meat waves.

Special Military Operation my ass.

[–] HowRu68@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

Anyone got a proper list where from Ruzz is recruiting, apart from the RF? So far I got :

  • South East Asia: India, Nepal, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, North-Korea, China etc
  • Africa: Cameroon , Somalia , Egypt, Ghana etc
  • LatAm: Cuba and probably Venezuela.

Update! : According to @Tuukka R, Somalians have been spotted and @pdqcp shared a link that states that mercs from at least 48 countries have reported for Ruzz recruitment center in Moscow as per march 2025.

Add: They are normally lied to by enrollment people, to get a Russian student's visa and or for menial-, maintenance-, or campwork. Promised like us$ 2000 - 3000 per month, which in their currency is lots of money. Then send to the frontlines within a week, where their lifeexpectancy is max 3 weeks or so.

[–] Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Africa: Cameroon and 2 other countries?

Seen several occurrences of Somalians fighting for the Russia.

[–] HowRu68@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

I don't really know, hence the question.

Info hasn't been great , but according to this other comment there were people from 48 countries. Updated my comment tnx.

[–] pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

In Apr/25, at least 48 countries based on a leak from Moscow's medical database, see:

https://istories.media/en/stories/2025/04/23/mercenaries/
https://archive.is/Fik9J

[–] HowRu68@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Great info article tnx. Updated

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just more fertilizer in the end.

[–] logi@piefed.world 5 points 1 day ago

About 3 weeks' worth.

[–] HowRu68@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Also, an afterthought, is there anything Europe and Nato & Friends can do to stop this influx? Maybe targeted local Counter disinformation in hot-spot countries.

I know Ukraine does this already in situ via pamphlets, radio etc.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

Hey, beats fighting their own idiotic war! Ha ha!