More than 1,400 African nationals fighting alongside Russian troops in Ukraine, Kyiv says

More than 1,400 African nationals from dozens of countries have joined Russian forces in their war against Ukraine, Kyiv’s foreign minister said on Friday.

Andriy Sabiha said Moscow is enticing Africans to sign contracts that he described as “equivalent to a death sentence.”

“Foreign citizens in the Russian army have a sad fate,” he wrote on X. “Most of them are immediately sent to the so-called ‘meat assaults’, where they are…