INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russia-based recruiters are targeting Cuban nationals online for the war in Ukraine, promising them lucrative military contracts, help with
media groups in which Cuban men are recruited to fight in Ukraine
monthly income of 204,000 rubles ($2,090)
Everyone wants to immediately rent a luxury apartment
But if necessary, in the first couple of weeks before the paycheck comes in, we can help move the family in somewhere and feed
posted photos of himself dressed in Russian military fatigues, said that Shuvalova was his point of contact in joining up to fight in
advertisements for foreigners on the popular Russian social media website VKontakte
outlet in the Ryazan region published photos of several Cubans who went to fight in Ukraine
The men expressed hope of receiving Russian citizenship.Two Cuban men who spoke on condition of anonymity told The Moscow Times they were
Their relatives try to find them through the Cuban diaspora or social media
service for foreigners from five years to just one year
said that online ads appeared in Armenia and Kazakhstan with an offer to enter contract service in the Russian army at the end of June
army, however.According to Russian military expert Pavel Luzin, authorities reduced the minimum contract term to a year with the expectation
definitely] not tens of thousands [of foreign military personnel]," Luzin said.
