Two men claiming to be 19-year-old Cubans accused Russia of using a fake construction job offer to deceive them into fighting in Ukraine.
expedited citizenship and other perks to foreign nationals seeking to fight in Ukraine this year, a deal at least 14 Cubans accepted, according to reports in May.of the leadership of the Wagner paramilitary group – previously critical to Russia’s operations to oust democratically elected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky – concerns of a vacuum that untrained Cuban teens could fill in the Russian “special operation” have escalated.
When they arrived in Ukraine, the Cubans said, they were sent to Russia’s “third line” in the country for military training. They did not fight in the war and were currently trapped in a Russian hospital, they claimed, as a result of an unspecified illness. “There were Cubans who received beatings because they wanted to go back to Cuba, in front of us by the Russians,” one of the said.The young men claimed they were trapped in a hospital where no one speaks Spanish and subject to mysterious medical testing on a regular basis. When demanding to be released or deported, “they tell us they are going to put us in jail for 30 years.”
Cary also said that her son suffered from gastritis and was taken out of military training. The last time she spoke to him, she said, he was training alongside paratroopers. “I’m very worried, all us parents are very worried because of the situation that these kids are in … we fear very much for the lives of these children,” Velásquez said.
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