MORE THAN 200 KENYANS FIGHTING FOR RUSSIA, NAIROBI CONFIRMS

Fri 14 November 2025:

On Wednesday, Kenya revealed that over 200 of its citizens are fighting for Russia in the Ukraine conflict, cautioning that active recruitment networks are still targeting Kenyans for enlistment.

“Reports suggest that over two hundred Kenyans may have joined the Russian military, with some being former members of Kenya’s disciplined services,” Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi said in a statement published on the Foreign Ministry’s website.

Ukraine said last week that more than 1,400 citizens from three dozen African countries are fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine, with some recruited through deception.

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Calling the situation extremely worrying, Mudavadi urged citizens to exercise caution toward overseas job offers that appear unrealistically attractive.

Last week, Kenyan President William Ruto, in a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, requested the release of Kenyans detained in the conflict zone.

In a statement issued by South Africa’s Presidency on Nov. 6, it was announced that efforts were underway through diplomatic channels to repatriate 17 South Africans who had been persuaded to become mercenaries with promises of high salaries and were stranded on the battlefield in Ukraine’s Donbas region.

As of November 2025, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha reports over 1,400 fighters from 36 African nations—mainly Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Cameroon, and Somalia—battling for Russia.

Sybiha calls these contracts “death sentences”—most are captured or killed in their first mission, with survival rates under a month.

Dubbed “Black Wagners” after the infamous mercenary group, these recruits often arrive via student visas or fake job offers, only to sign military contracts in Russian.

According to some media reports, Russia’s suffered 1.1 million casualties, so it’s outsourcing “meat assaults”—suicidal frontal charges—to foreigners.

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