The American MagazineTIME dedicated a report to the controversial case of theCuban mercenaries who were hired to fight on the Russian side in the war against Ukraine.
The prestigiousmagazinepolitician argued that, based on the data of the hundreds of Cubans hired for the war conflict, thehuman trafficking accusationswhat the Cuban government has done could be aregime's attempt to maintain its neutrality declared war in Ukraine.
The report refers to the case of the young recruitAlex Vegas Diaz, who traveled to Russia on a construction contract, but was then sent to the trenches of the Russian army.
The testimony of this and other young men indicates that they were involved "in a large organized operation that has openly recruited hundreds of Cuban volunteers to fight in Moscow's increasingly depleted army since July."
According to the media, after analyzing theemails leaked by Ukrainian hackers, only the almost 200 Cubans who passed through the military office in the city of Tula between July and August are documented, but it is believed that the number of mercenaries is much higher.
They also report that estimates by Cuban human rights groups range between 750 and more than 1,000 recruits.
The Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba (FHRC), based in Miami, toldTIME that of the 746 recruits they have tracked, at least 62 appear to be part of a highly trained Cuban special forces team known as Black Wasps.
TIME reviewed 199 passports of Cubans, ages 18 to 69, who appear to have enlisted in the Russian army since mid-July, and compared more than 20 with social media profiles that corroborated their names, faces and cities of origin.
According to their version, perhaps the clearest indication that the vast majority of these recruits went to Russia voluntarily, and did not act as if they were participating in an illegal plan, comes through their own publications on social networks, as they were portrayed next to Russian tanks, smiling with other Cubanswith their new military uniformsand they boasted about sending money home.
"The discovery of the recruitment efforts has complicated the delicate line that Havana has tried to walk since the Russian invasion of Ukraine," the text said.
The Havana government He expressed in a statement on September 4 that he was working to dismantle a human trafficking network dedicated to transferring Cuban citizens to the conflict, as well as recruiting others who already resided in Russia.
Posteriorly,arrested almost twenty people relatedwith the recruitment of mercenaries.
A Russian military officer with the rank of senior officer confirmed thatthere are many Cubans who are on the front lines as part of international battalions fighting in the Ukrainian war.
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