Who is the Cuban mercenary captured by Ukraine?

After interrogation by Cuban mercenary captured by the Ukrainian army, there are many who wonder who is the young man from Guantanamo who answers to the name of Frank Dario.

CyberCuba searched social networks and found three profiles of Facebook to name Frank Dario Jarrosay Manfuga, a musician affiliated with the Danza Libre Company, resident in Guantánamo and industrial engineer with academic training.

Jarrosay Manfuga's physical resemblance to the Cuban recently captured in the Marinka area, as well as the data provided during his interrogation, lead us to believe that it is the same person.

Graduated from the University of Guantanamo and with single marital status, Jarrosay Manfuga was born on September 6, 1989 in that city in Eastern Cuba. During the interrogation, the cuban mercenary He revealed that he had been enlisted in the troops of the Russian army since last January 16.

As he explained, he was contacted by other Cubans who were in Russia, who told him that the Russians were looking for people “to work in construction.” In exchange, they offered him a contract of 250,000 rubles a month (more than $2,700 a month) and Russian nationality. Frank Dario accepted and ended up on the front line captured by the Ukrainians.

“At no time did we know that we had to go to war, do you understand me? We came to do masonry work. They gave us a contract in Russian, which we did not understand… When you realize it, you are in a bunker firing shots,” said the mercenary, while considering that “the Cubans who come here do not have military training.”

Born two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall and informed of world events through the official media and the propaganda of the Cuban regime, this young Cuban at the service of the Kremlin had no idea where he was going, nor the implications of his actions.

Driven by poverty and the need for money, Frank Darío did not end up dead by a miracle. Other Cuban mercenaries have lost their lives in the Ukrainian war. The fate of this prisoner of war is unknown, although the Ukrainians have stated on several occasions that all those captured mercenaries will be subjected to a military trial. which can have fatal consequences.

At the end of December, the General Staff of the Ukrainian army confirmed the capture of Marinka by the Russian Army. According to Europa Press, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Valeri Zaluzhni noted that Ukrainian forces defended the city under the trenches "street by street" and "block by block" for almost two years, and that the method used by the Russians to take the city was the same applied in Bakhmut (bombing until it was reduced to ashes).

A month after the fall, Frank Darío arrived in Marinka, a Ukrainian territory now occupied by the Russians. However, two months later, the Cuban mercenary was captured by Ukrainian troops.