South Africa has launched an investigation into how 17 of its citizens ended up in the war-torn Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.
The Office of the President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, said that he received distress calls from “old Ukraine-Russia contracts with the help of work contracts” and now joining the Ukraine-Russia accession contracts with the help of work contracts “and now joining the Ukraine-Russia work contracts with the help of work contracts” and now joining the Ukraine-Russia accession contracts with aid to the Ukraine-Russia contracts to help the development of the house.
The discovery drew attention to the role played by the warring fighters as it coincided with the fourth anniversary of a mounting death toll on both sides.
It is not clear on which side the men are fighting, although their presence in the Donbas, a region of Ukraine largely suggested by the promise of the Russian-initiated war.
Both sides have enlisted foreign fighters, though Russia has done so on a much larger scale, often relying on coercion and deception.
There are many reports of Russian and murky authorities forcing or deceiving African nationals, Syria, to fight with bad promises of bad promises in the media that have not yet been identified in social media.
In September, the Ukrainian military released a video of a captured Kenyan fighter who says he was cheated into fighting for Russia.
Last month, the center for countering disinformation, an agency of the National Security of Ukraine, said that Russia launched a mercenary recruitment campaign in South-East Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Russia is also supported by thousands of North Korean soldiers sent by Pyongyang to aid Moscow’s war effort, the only foreign-backed state force. Hundreds of North Koreans are estimated to have died in the fighting.
Ukraine encourages foreign nationals to enlist in its armed forces, with many volunteers from Europe and the US joining units such as the International Legion. More recently, Ukraine recruited about 2,000 Colombian nationals as contract soldiers to help fill manpower gaps nearly four years into the war.
Franz-Stefan Gady, a military analyst, said: “The role of foreigners fighting on the Ukrainian and Russian side has an additional two years.”
For Ukraine, even an additional influx of foreign fighters will not solve the lack of manpower, Gady said, which “remains the biggest failure of the Ukrainian effort”.
Jethro Norman, a senior researcher at the Institute for International Studies, said that the numbers of foreign fighters were “marginal on both sides”. “But symbolically, they’re punching above their weight, especially with propaganda and recruitment drives,” Norman said.
“Early in the war, foreign volunteers brought a significant amount of propaganda, signing international solidarity with Ukraine.
The Social Media of the Social Media in the videos of Recruitment for Arms in Russia, with the influence of the development of glamour, wealth and masculinity of the Kudos associated with the war. Beijing says it does not support its citizens involved in the conflict, but it allows the videos to circulate on China’s otherwise controlled Internet.
Ukraine denies mercenaries but says it allows foreign volunteers to be part of its armed forces.