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Russia asked to explain how Zambian student jailed in Moscow wound up dead on Ukraine battlefield
Reuters / National Post ^ | Nov. 15, 2022 | Chris Mfula

Posted on 11/16/2022 4:13:24 AM PST by canuck_conservative

The Zambian student was serving a jail sentence at a medium security prison on the outskirts of Moscow after being convicted of contravening Russian law, Kakubo said, without specifying the offense that occurred in April 2020.

“The Zambian government has requested the Russian authorities to urgently provide information on the circumstances under which a Zambian citizen, serving a prison sentence in Moscow, could have been recruited to fight in Ukraine,” Kakubo said.

It was not clear how the prisoner was recruited and by whom....

ussia’s defense ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the circumstances of his journey to Ukraine and subsequent death.

The 23-year-old, who was studying nuclear engineering at a university in Moscow, was convicted and jailed for nine years and six months, according to Kakubo.

His father said Lemekhani was jailed for drug trafficking while doing a part-time job as a courier.

According to Edwin Nyirenda, his son was given a parcel, which contained drugs and the police were not able to identify the person who gave it to him....

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; Russia
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To: cranked

Funny, it was the Russian House of Cards that imploded twice last century and looks to be wobbling again right now.


41 posted on 11/16/2022 6:26:11 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: rrrod
Odd...the only “people” clamaring for war are the Putin Puffers...

If you hit the buzzer your Nurse will change your drool pad.

42 posted on 11/16/2022 6:47:17 AM PST by BlackbirdSST (Trump WON!!! The Gestapo closes ranks.)
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To: BlackbirdSST

Proved me right... again.


43 posted on 11/16/2022 7:13:54 AM PST by rrrod (6)
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To: Nifster

“They are still the state of political prison camps”

So is the USA.


44 posted on 11/16/2022 7:17:31 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: laconic

Russians also used their prisoners to clear mine fields by walking over them.


45 posted on 11/16/2022 8:16:39 AM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: mac_truck

“One year of fighting vs nine years of hard labor in a Russian prison...which posed a greater risk to an African drug smuggler?”

He guessed wrong.


46 posted on 11/16/2022 11:02:16 AM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

Russia’s friend, Iran, also did that, except they used little boys dressed up and organized as martyrs.


47 posted on 11/16/2022 11:11:43 AM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: Carl Vehse

“”During the Vietnam “War” in the 60s judges in the United States sometimes gave young men convicted of crimes the choice of going to jail or going into the army.””

That was different, it was for rambunctious teen boys that seemed good kids that needed a drill sergeant and structure more than to be exposed to prison life, and it worked very well.

The Russians use actual hardened prison guys, real-life criminals, and felons.


48 posted on 11/16/2022 11:18:48 AM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: moovova

And yet here we are on FR freely talking and condemning that which we don’t like


49 posted on 11/16/2022 11:55:21 AM PST by Nifster (OI see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: ansel12

He died on his feet...isn’t that what you clowns always say?


50 posted on 11/16/2022 11:57:37 AM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera )
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To: mac_truck

Wow, you really are a nasty little internet male with your insults and name-calling.


51 posted on 11/16/2022 12:07:35 PM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: Nifster

I get your point. We’re the lucky ones...so far. But some aren’t that lucky. Look at the poor souls that have been in jail, no ball, for almost two years, for trespassing at the Capitol on J6.


52 posted on 11/16/2022 1:24:19 PM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: cranked

Yet Russians keep running away


53 posted on 11/16/2022 4:02:26 PM PST by jdsteel (PA voters elected a stroke victim and a dead guy. Not a joke.)
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To: cranked

Yet Russians keep running away


54 posted on 11/16/2022 4:10:40 PM PST by jdsteel (PA voters elected a stroke victim and a dead guy. Not a joke.)
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To: cranked

But Russians keep running away.

Pretty much to pre invasion lines.


55 posted on 11/16/2022 4:11:41 PM PST by jdsteel (PA voters elected a stroke victim and a dead guy. Not a joke.)
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To: cranked

Dying as much as Russian troops????


56 posted on 11/16/2022 4:12:11 PM PST by jdsteel (PA voters elected a stroke victim and a dead guy. Not a joke.)
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To: cranked

Still stuck on stupid, eh?

Ukraine was the victim of the Holodomor, done by Russia. They were not responsible for any of Germany’s atrocities.


57 posted on 11/16/2022 4:14:33 PM PST by jdsteel (PA voters elected a stroke victim and a dead guy. Not a joke.)
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To: canuck_conservative

yes, they really love black folks in Russia.


58 posted on 11/16/2022 4:15:20 PM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: moovova

The dictatorial nature of the left


59 posted on 11/16/2022 4:22:57 PM PST by Nifster (OI see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: jdsteel

No more than you stuck on stupid and 8 years of Banderist committing ethnic cleansing, shelling, torture, etc. in the Donbass regions....

Knock yourself out, stuck on stupid.

https://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/e/7/233896.pdf


60 posted on 11/16/2022 6:09:51 PM PST by cranked
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