Russia tricks Yemeni men to fight in Ukraine under Houthi scheme: report

Russia is recruiting hundreds of Yemeni men to fight successful its warfare successful Ukraine by luring them to Russia nether mendacious pretenses successful coordination with the Houthi violent network, a study by the Financial Times found.

The Yemeni recruits who were transferred to Russia nether a "shadowy trafficking operation" were primitively told they would person high-paying jobs and Russian citizenship.

However, aft arriving with the assistance of a Houthi-linked company, galore person seemingly been coerced into the Russian military, forced to motion warring contracts astatine gunpoint and sent to the beforehand lines successful Ukraine.

Ukrainian soldiers of a mortar squad successful the 24th Brigade are seen astatine positions adjacent Toretsk arsenic the warfare betwixt Russia and Ukraine continues successful Toretsk, Ukraine, connected March 26, 2024. ((Photo by Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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Fox News Digital could not instantly scope the U.S. State Department oregon the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense for remark connected Russia’s expanding usage of overseas fighters to assistance its warfare instrumentality successful Ukraine.

It is unclear if immoderate of the Yemeni men are Houthi terrorists oregon however galore person been sent to combat successful Ukraine, though the Financial Times study connected Sunday suggested that recruitment is believed to person begun successful July. At slightest 200 Yemeni men were reportedly a portion of conscionable 1 radical forcibly conscripted into the Russian subject successful September – astir of whom had small grooming earlier they were past sent to Ukraine to fight. 

A video posted by the London-based quality outlet depicted astatine slightest 5 Yemeni men, 4 successful the video on with the cameraman, explaining their dire concern and noting that 1 of their chap conscripts attempted to perpetrate termination but was taken to a infirmary earlier being reinstated into work 1 time later.

"We are present nether bombardment," said the antheral holding the camera, who expressed their exhaustion and showed a radical of men holed up successful a Ukrainian forest. "Mines, drones, digging bunkers, we are carrying lumber."

U.S. diplomats told the quality outlet that the strategy coordinated between the Houthis and Russia shows however acold Moscow is consenting to spell to beef up its forces amid the precocious casualty rates.

Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense connected Monday assessed that Russia has seen much than 730,000 casualties successful the astir three-year-long war, though U.S. assessments successful aboriginal October suggested this fig was person to 600,000, which includes immoderate 115,000 deaths and astir 500,000 wounded. 

Ukrainian soldiers occurrence astatine targets connected the beforehand enactment successful the absorption of the metropolis of Ugledar, Donetsk, Ukraine, arsenic the Russia-Ukraine warfare continues connected April 18, 2023. (Photo by Muhammed Enes Yildirim/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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Though the study by the Financial Times suggests determination could beryllium hundreds, if not more, Yemeni men forced to combat successful Ukraine, they are not the lone overseas fighters being pulled into Russia’s warfare machine. 

North Korea has sent immoderate 12,000 troops to assistance Russia, and reports earlier this twelvemonth suggested that men from India and Nepal had been lured into warring for Moscow nether mendacious pretenses, again having been promised lucrative jobs earlier being shipped disconnected to the warfare successful Ukraine. 

It is unclear however galore Indian men person been conscripted into Russia’s military, though a study by Time successful August said that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi seemingly raised the taxable with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a July sojourn to Moscow. Modi was allegedly assured Russia would bash what it could to instrumentality each Indian mercenaries, though the presumption of that statement remains unclear. 

CNN likewise reported earlier this twelvemonth that immoderate 15,000 men from Nepal had besides been recruited to combat for Russia – depicting a inclination that shows Russia has been targeting impoverished nations to falsely lure fighters into its ranks. 

Russia has been bolstering its ties with Iran, and successful extension, Iran’s proxy forces similar the Houthis, since Putin launched his "special subject operation" successful Ukraine successful 2022.

Protesters, chiefly Houthi supporters, clasp up weapons arsenic they rally to amusement enactment for Palestinians and Lebanon's Hezbollah successful Sanaa, Yemen, connected Nov. 8, 2024. (REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah)

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It is unclear what, if anything, Russia has promised the Houthi’s successful speech for their assistance successful Moscow’s latest conscription scheme, and information officials person yet to corroborate immoderate arms income from Russia to the violent network. 

Russia is known, however, to person aided the radical by providing targeting data, which the radical uses successful its attacks against Western ships successful the Red Sea. 

The Houthis person besides sent astatine slightest 2 delegations to Russia this twelvemonth to conscionable with elder Kremlin officials.