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  • How Wagner Group’s Mutiny Is Affecting Cuba

    07/05/2023 4:13:10 PM PDT · by Timber Rattler · 11 replies
    The National Interest ^ | July 4, 2023 | Luis Fleischman
    Madrid-based Prisoners Defenders, an NGO focused on Cuban human rights, reported that the Cuban and Russian governments signed an agreement in which Cuba would send soldiers to join the war in Ukraine. Such a development raises many important questions. The Wagner Group’s dramatic failed mutiny displayed something the Kremlin knew long ago: the group, including its leader, Yevgeny Prighozin, has become a problem for Russia, particularly on the Ukrainian front. The group had little military training and served as cannon fodder in the war. Thousands of its fighters fell in battle. Wagner was convenient to Russia, as many of its...
  • Cuba exposes Russian human trafficking ring for military recruitment

    09/05/2023 7:49:47 AM PDT · by DUMBGRUNT · 12 replies
    Politico ^ | 5 sept 2023 | LAURA HÜLSEMANN
    The Cuban government has exposed a Russian trafficking operation used to lure Cubans into the war against Ukraine, Cuban authorities announced Monday. “The Ministry of the Interior has detected and is working to neutralize and dismantle a human trafficking network operating from Russia to incorporate Cuban citizens living there, and even some from Cuba, into the military forces participating in war operations in Ukraine,” the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Monday. The authorities are taking legal actions against the traffickers, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez said on X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday.