Russian trap: How African women were duped into exploitative slave-like labour

An explosion is seen in an apartment building after Russian's army tank fires in Mariupol, Ukraine, Friday, March 11, 2022. [AP]

Russia’s trap that has drawn African women into slave-like labour at its Special Economic Zone, about 800 miles south-east of Moscow, is emerging as yet another problem Moscow has created for the African continent.

It is emerging that some of the young women duped into working in war factories have begun to escape, finding their way back to their countries in Africa, The Sunday Standard has learnt.