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Russia Is Trying to Recruit Foreign-Fighters (Syrians) to Fight in Ukraine
- rektide 5y agoThe mere prospect of being a better paid/supported mercenary somewhere else than the warn-torn long-war country you've been in is a worryingly reasonable appeal.
- eveningcoffee 5y agoNot sure that getting into Ukrainian meat grinder is really better prospect. Actually the quite opposite looks to be true.
- quantified 5y agoPaying in bitcoin, gold, dollars or rubles?
- simonblack 5y agoIt's the losing side that tries to get all the help it can. So it's far more likely that it's Ukraine trying to recruit some anti-Assad insurgents from Syria. Foreign-speakers would only cause problems for the Russians, not help them.
- eveningcoffee 5y agoUkraine does not have to try anything. Instead they have problem of making formations out of volunteers fast enough.