““They claim that they came to Russia to work. The Russians promised them a salary of $2,500 a month and construction work. When the Colombians arrived in Ufa, their documents were taken away, they were handed submachine guns and without food and water they were sent to storm Pokrovsk.””, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“They claim that they came to Russia to work. The Russians promised them a salary of $2,500 a month and construction work. When the Colombians arrived in Ufa, their documents were taken away, they were handed machine guns and without food and water they were sent to storm Pokrovsk,” said the 425th Skelya Assault Regiment.
Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia has been actively recruiting foreign mercenaries. There are known cases of recruitment of citizens of Cuba, India, Syria, China and other countries. Hirelings are offered high pay and accelerated acquisition of Russian citizenship.
In April of this year, the Russian edition “Vazhnye istorii” established the identities of more than 1,500 foreign mercenaries who signed contracts with the Russian Ministry of Defense to participate in the war against Ukraine. According to the report, more than 1.3 thousand foreigners are citizens of 48 countries. At least 603 of them are from Nepal.