• Russia is replenishing its troops with an unlikely source — African migrants and students.
  • Thousands of Africans have been forced to join in Russia’s war against Ukraine, per Bloomberg.
  • The country has also been plugging its manpower gaps by sending prison inmates to the battlefield.
  • Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    Wild that this got downvoted. I guess pressganging men into combat is only bad when da ruskies do it?

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      10 months ago

      They don’t like to hear that their team is doing the same thing they claim only the other team does