Sep. 24 — On Sep. 20, the Kenyan government started to investigate possible information on three or four cases of human trafficking to Russia and currently held as POWs by the Ukrainian military, said Korir Sing’Oei, Principal Secretary for Foreign Affairs of Kenya.

On Sep. 17, the 57th Motorized Brigade captured a Kenyan athlete, Evans Kibet, on the Vovchansk axis in Kharkiv Oblast. He said he had been tricked into signing a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense.

This August, Business Insider Africa wrote about South Africa investigating Russian mass recruitment of women in the country. 

This investigation started after the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) alleged that many women recruited through the Alabuga program were unknowingly assigned to drone assembly plants. 

Alabuga Special Economic Zone is located in Tatarstan. It’s a major industrial center for Russia, and one of its specialties is producing Shahed-type drones which Russia uses in hundreds to strike Ukrainian cities.

Earlier, Ukraine’s 10th army corps said that the Russian army recruits mercenaries from abroad and socially vulnerable people, promising them documents and money.

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