Biography of the Cuban

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The Russian passport allows you to travel without visas in countries, while the owners of Cuban passports are limited by 61 countries. The local Russian media from Ryazan confirmed these assumptions last year by publishing photos of Cuban recruits signing contracts with the Russian army. Cubans wanted to "help our country achieve the goals of a special military operation," the report said.

It was noted that "some of them would like to become Russian citizens in the future." But finding a reliable assessment of the number of Cubans serving in the ranks of the Russian army is difficult. The Kubinsky officer Lasaro Gonzalez, an employee in Russia, told the anti -government radio station of Cuban emigrants that under his command there are 90 Cubans. According to him, they will most likely serve in the already occupied territories of Eastern Ukraine, and not in the forefront.

The author of the photo, Facebook signature to the photo, the Cubans are attracted by high salaries and Russian passports. Numerous reports indicate that Cubans often joined the Russian army after communicating with recruiters on social networks, but not all of them knew what they would really have to do. Last year, the popular Kubinsky blogger in YouTube told the story of two summer Cubans who claimed to be offered work at a construction site in Russia, but sent to the front.

Their case reflects the experience of other foreigners who told the BBC that they were lured to Russia with a promise of a higher salary, and then they were on the battlefield. Unprofitable anxiety. As students from Nepal could get to the war in Ukraine as part of the Russian army, for their part, the Cuban authorities made conflicting statements regarding the participation of their citizens in the war in Ukraine.

After a flurry of messages in September, the Cuban authorities stated that 17 people involved in their recruiting stated about the Cubans fighting in Ukraine. However, shortly after this, Cuba Ambassador to Russia Hulio Antonio Garmenia, the stump said that his government has nothing against the Cubans who want to "simply sign a contract and legally take part in this operation together with the Russian army." Meanwhile, the Ukrainian authorities note that in recent months they noticed an increase in the number of foreign fighters in the Russian army, as well as foreigners among the soldiers whom the Ukrainian army captured on the battlefield.

Pyotr Yatsenko, a representative of the Ukrainian Prisoner of War Affairs Agency, told the BBC that many of them came from countries with a low standard of living, such as Cuba, India and Nepal, some countries of Africa and Central Asia. Their combat skills were low, he added, and this meant that their life expectancy on the battlefield was not even days, but a clock.