Russia is luring Africans to their death in Ukraine with false promises

A man and Ukrainian serviceman walk past flags and portraits at a makeshift memorial for fallen Ukrainian and foreign soldiers on Independence Square in Kyiv, on January 18, 2026. [AFP]

Recently, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha drew attention to a stark and unsettling fact. Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine has now lasted longer than the bloodiest part of World War 2 which involved two monstrous dictatorships of the time, Germany’s Adolf Hitler and USSR’s Josef Stalin in the meat grinder of 1941–1945.