Moscow has previously pulled mercenaries into its war effort in Ukraine and now appears to be recruiting much further afield.
The Russian military has recruited 'hundreds' of Yemeni fighters, according to a new report, as Moscow pays dearly in casualty counts for gains in eastern Ukraine.Yemeni citizens were promised high wages and Russian citizenship before traveling to Russia to be 'forcibly inducted into Moscow's army and sent to the front lines in Ukraine,' the Financial Times reported on Sunday. The travel was facilitated by a company linked to Yemen's Houthi rebels.
It was Russia's Wagner Group of mercenaries—dubbed private military companies, in Kremlin parlance—that declared Russian control over the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut in May 2023.Wagner fighters, led by former Vladimir Putin ally Yevgeny Prigozhin, then launched a short-lived mutiny against the Kremlin in the summer of 2023. Prigozhin was killed in a plane crash shortly after the uprising failed, and the Wagner influence tailed off.
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