A Cuban mother He took to social media to launch a desperate call for help with the aim of locating his son in Russia, who he fears may have joined the armed forces of that country and find himself as mercenary in its invasion of Ukraine.
“Hello group, I am a desperate mother. I haven't heard from my son for 11 days, I write him text messages on WhatsApp, on Facebook, on Instagram, I call him and I have no response. "I'm going crazy, I can't take this anguish anymore," said the mother in the group. Facebook 'Cubans in Russia (Moscow)'.
Identified as Maria Elena Felipe Goya On her Facebook profile, the mother acknowledged her desperation after multiple unsuccessful attempts to talk to her son on the phone.
“Please, if anyone can help me, his name is Lizardo Aparicio. I hope, with God's favor, he is well. Someone tell me what I can do. God bless you. I put some photos. Please, if anyone knows anything, I would appreciate any information. “Thank you,” the woman said.
Born in Zulueta, Villa Clara, the Cuban mother resides in Argentina, a country in which he intended to reunite with his son, as he explained in the comments to his publication. “I want to bring it to Argentina. I am living here, but he did not have the patience to wait for the procedures to be done,” explained Felipe Goya.
One of the people who responded to him in the comments, apparently another Cuban mother in the same situation, told him that her son was in the war in Ukraine. “Mine went to work and… do you know where he is?… In the war in Russia and Ukraine. They deceive them“said the Facebook user identified as Idalmis Doll Mountain, Resident in Holguin.
The possibility that Lizardo Aparicio Felipe is in Russia enrolled as a mercenary in the service of the regime Vladimir Putin in the invasion of Ukraine was not confirmed by his mother, who did not rule it out either, according to her statements.
“I asked him and implored him not to leave., but you already know what youth is like and how it is unfortunately the situation in Cuba, which leads to all this. I was doing everything for him to bring him to Argentina, but I don't know what happened to him, that he didn't have that little bit of patience to be able to finish all the procedures,” said Lizardo's mother.
At the time of writing this note, other details about the identity of the young man, as well as his departure from Cuba to Russia (dates, departure airport, etc.) are unknown. CyberCuba He contacted the young man's mother but, at the time of publishing this note, he has not received a response to these questions.
According to your profile social networks, Felipe Goya resides in Buenos Aires, works for the San Martin Medical Corporation and has a degree in Defectology from the Félix Varela Higher Pedagogical Institute, in Santa Clara.
“I'm desperate, he had never stopped communicating with me. They already tried to communicate with him, and his cell phone is turned off,” said the desperate mother.
Recent images that circulated on social networks showed two young Cubans who were fighting as mercenaries in the Ukrainian war firing bursts into the air to remember their compatriots who died in the war.
“This is for our loved ones, the Cubans,” one of them was heard saying in the video. “This is a tribute we are paying to our fallen brothers.. “We want to demonstrate how we Cubans fire men, we fire men,” said the other.
The exact number of Cuban mercenaries in the service of Russia is not clear.
It is believed that between 400 and 3,000 Cubans have joined Putin's army as mercenaries, according to media estimates. America Camel.
In mid-March, the Ukrainian government denounced at a press conference held in kyiv the growing presence of Cuban mercenaries in the war.
"We see photographs, videos from the Russian side where many mercenaries from Cuba are seen," said then the press officer of the Ukrainian Committee for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, Petro Yatsenko.
The official reproached the Cuban regime for its tolerance of the recruitment of its citizens by Russia, despite reports that many travel deceived and have died on the front.
"We cannot affirm that it is a state program, but we know that no one opposes it", declared Yatsenko, criticizing that "Russian agitators" work without restrictions in Cuba. Eight prisoners of war, among whom was a Cuban, participated in said press conference.
The Cuban, a 35-year-old teacher and musician from Guantánamo named Frank Darío Jarrosay Manfuga, said he arrived in Russia with a promise of work in construction. He explained that he saw the proposal on Facebook and applied, but when he arrived in Moscow He was dragged into combat with the Russian Army on the front.
This Cuban Geography teacher and musician is now waiting for a solution to his case as a prisoner of war in Ukraine. Yatsenko stated that Ukraine is open to negotiating the return of captured mercenaries to their countries of origin.
Taking into account the regime's history in international negotiation processes, such as that of the Cuban doctors kidnapped in Kenya, it is difficult to imagine what efforts or rewards the government of Miguel Diaz-Canel to return to its citizens.
In recent months some Cubans have said having left for Russia deceived, while others have admitted to knowing clearly what they were going for.
For their part, Cuban authorities claimed to have dismantled a network dedicated to human trafficking to send them to Russia, but did not offer more details about the case, in which 17 people had allegedly been arrested.
Despite openly showing support for Putin's "special military operation" against Ukraine, the Cuban regime appears to be unaware that hundreds of young people have left the country for Russia, passing through its strict immigration controls, which is why many international experts and Cuban activists denounce that this trafficking of mercenaries has the approval of the authorities.
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