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Aug 22, 2026
South Africa Is Better at Investigating Russian Recruitment Than at Preventing It. A Policy Analyst Mapped Five Reforms to Fix That.
In February 2026, South Africa's Presidency confirmed that 17 citizens - men aged between 20 and 39 - had sought government assistance after being lured into Russia's army. Officia…
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POW Profiles
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POW ProfileAug 22, 2026
Haron Kibet Pachenge from Kenya Joined the Russian Army and Became a Prisoner of War in Ukraine
POW ProfileAug 20, 2026
Sahil Mahammadhusen Majoti from India Joined the Russian Army and Became a Prisoner of War in Ukraine
POW ProfileAug 17, 2026
Kimis William Vladimir Lukhe from Ecuador Joined the Russian Army and Became a Prisoner of War in Ukraine
Profiles of recruiters who lured foreigners into Russia's army
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Newsfeed
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Aug 19, 2026
Ukraine Just Freed 103 Soldiers. Russia Has Not Asked for Its Foreign Recruits Back.
Aug 19, 2026
Russia Is Not Giving Foreign Recruits Dog Tags. It Is Marking Inventory Numbers Onto Their Skin
- Aug 18, 2026Uganda's Deputy PM Said She Didn't Know Ugandans Were Being Trafficked to Russia's Front. Their Families Did. Three Are Confirmed Dead.
- Aug 17, 2026Ghana's FM Raised 62 Dead Ghanaians and 15 Missing With Lavrov in Moscow.
- Aug 17, 2026Ukraine Is Holding Iraqi Citizens Captured Fighting for Russia. A Court in Najaf Already Sentenced Their Recruiter to Life.
- Aug 17, 2026A Russian Company Operating in Uganda Is Taking 83% of the Signing Bonus Before Recruits Even Board the Plane. A Leaked Contract Shows How.
- Aug 14, 2026He Fought for Russia in Ukraine. Back Home in Belgrade, He Became a Contract Killer for a Drug Cartel.
- Aug 13, 2026Malawi Admits Four Citizens Trapped in Alabuga's War Machine - While Government Claims No Official Reports of Malawians in Russia's Military
- Aug 12, 2026Filipino Recruited Into Russia's Army Killed in Donetsk - One Week After Signing, One Month After Arriving
- Aug 12, 2026Scammers Are Targeting Families of Foreign Nationals Missing in Ukraine
- Aug 11, 2026Bangladeshi POWs: One Was Promised a Grape Orchard. Another Was Promised Italy. All Three Ended Up Signing Russian Military Contracts They Couldn't Read.
- Aug 8, 2026ActionAid Nigeria Calls on Government, INTERPOL and the African Union to Investigate Russia's Alabuga Start Programme
- Aug 7, 2026"Don't Trust Russian Recruiters." A Zimbabwean Woman Is Pleading With Her President to Bring Her 51-Year-Old Husband Back From the Front.
- Aug 6, 2026Came to Russia for Work. Sent to the Front. Two Kyrgyz Labor Migrants Killed in Russia's War.
- Aug 5, 2026Ukraine Coordination HQ: Russian Recruitment Stopped in 39 Countries, People From 51 Countries Captured as POWs
- Aug 5, 2026Russia Tattooed Their ID Numbers Into Their Skin Like Nazi Concentration Camp Prisoners: Stories of a Bangladeshi, a Burundian and a Yemeni
- Aug 5, 2026UK-Sanctioned Russian Recruiter Who Lured African Girls Into Drone Factories Was Found in Child Sex Abuse Channels on Telegram.
- Aug 5, 2026"We Just Want to Know the Truth." Three Kenyan Families on What Russia Has Done to Them.
Investigations
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Aug 19, 2026
EUvsDisinfo Investigated Russia's Global Foreign Recruitment Pipeline. Here Is What They Found.
- Russia Won't Tell Kenyan Families Whether Their Sons Are Alive. A Shadowy Russian Network Will - For 30%.Aug 18, 2026
- The New Comintern: From Discussion Clubs and Hikes to Dying for Russia on the FrontlineAug 10, 2026
- "They Didn't Bring Us Here for Anything Else, Just to Die." How Russia Is Funneling Colombians Into Suicide Missions - And Denying Everything.Aug 7, 2026
Legal Actions
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Aug 9, 2026
Uzbek Citizen Jailed for Fighting in Russia's War in Ukraine
- 51 Indians Dead Fighting for Russia. India's Supreme Court Has Ordered the Government to Help Their Families.Aug 3, 2026
- Kyrgyzstan Deports Russian Recruiter With Murder, Wagner and GRU in His BackgroundJul 27, 2026
- Zimbabwe Russia Recruiter's Lawyer Quits Mid-Case: Oscar Mtshiya to Represent Himself as Bail Hearing PostponedJul 9, 2026