Russia recruits thousands of African fighters for its war in Ukraine, often through deceptive agencies promising civilian ...

The South African leader said that the men had come home two weeks after he had won agreement from President Vladimir V. Putin.

Men ‘lured’ into fighting in the Ukraine war say Africans were subjected to worse treatment on the front lines.

Northwestern University professor William Reno, who researches Ukraine’s military training for the Pentagon and visits the country regularly, noted that Ukraine has found cheap ways to shoot down ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oscar Khagola Mutoka (far right) sent this photo to his father, Charles Mutoka, in Kenya after arriving in Russia for military ...

A management consultant in peacetime, a commander in war: Volodymyr Barantsov died defending Ukraine’s eastern frontier. Credit: Courtesy of the author. Sign up for our daily newsletter to get two ...

Recruitment efforts have increasingly expanded beyond Russia’s borders.

JOHANNESBURG, Feb 24 (Reuters) - South Africa's government said on Tuesday that 11 of a group of 17 men who were lured into fighting for Russia in Ukraine were set to return home soon, after an ...

More than 1,000 Kenyans and people from 36 African nations are fighting for Russia, many of them recruited fraudulently.

South Africans were recruited to fight in Ukraine; 15 repatriated, 2 dead, government investigates illegal mercenary ...

However, four years have passed and Ukraine now controls more territory than it did in June 2022. This is despite facing the ...

Families of young Kenyan men who found themselves fighting in Ukraine after being duped into joining the Russian military are calling on the Kenyan government to provide information on their ...