Comment on Russia gave two Nigerian recruits no training, then sent them into a “meat assault” in Ukraine

jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  They’ve been importing people from wherever they can at this point.

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• The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  many, many countries are either getting duped or forced into the meat grinder for dear Putin’s pet project

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• wieson@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yep, they’re doing all kinds of scams. Saw an interview with an Ethiopian mother of a man, who was lured to Russia for training and work as a an electrical powerline technician. Then they tell him, he could be a drone pilot. They make him sign documents in Russian that he doesn’t understand. Then he lands on the front line as a foot soldier, not a drone pilot, gets berated by his officers all the time.

  Iirc he managed to flee from the hospital, but I’m unsure if he made it back to Ethiopia.

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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    gets berated by his officers all the time.

    See, this is what I don’t get. How do they expect to have a functional military with this kind of “recruiting.” It won’t work. But I guess no one wants to explain that to Putin.

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