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“Diop, who says he ended up in uniform after being lured by the promise of a civilian job, is one of the lucky ones. A Russian list of 316 deceased African recruits shows that, on average, they died less than six months after being deployed to Ukraine, according to Inpact, a Switzerland-based nonprofit that obtained the records. More than 50 African recruits were killed within a month of arriving at the front, Inpact found.

The Kremlin expected a quick win when it launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, but it has found itself mired in a war that has left 325,000 of its troops dead and 900,000 wounded or missing, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank. Russia has suffered 242 dead and wounded for each square mile of Ukrainian territory it has gained, according to the Institute for the Study of War, a nonpartisan Washington think tank that studies military operations worldwide.

Talks to end the fighting are moving slowly, if at all.

Earlier in the war, the Russian military boosted its ranks with poor recruits from distant reaches of the country, Wagner Group mercenaries and convicts promised freedom”

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“Russia lures recruits from Africa to feed its Ukraine war machine”

Benoit Faucon, Milàn Czerny

The Wall Street Journal

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