Russia has been accused of strapping a landmine to an African mercenary’s chest and ordering him to run through no man’s land as a human bomb to target Ukrainian fortifications.
Widely shared video purporting to show preparation for the attack shows the black mercenary being marched through a trench at gunpoint and being ordered to storm Ukrainian positions.
A Russian uses racist insults, telling the recruit he is being used as a “can opener” to blow himself up to “open” an enemy bunker.
The video emerged as Ukraine’s ambassador to South Africa told The Telegraph that Russia was using Africans as “meat for the meat grinder” by tricking them into joining the war in Ukraine.
Thousands of Africans are thought to have been lured to the front lines, either under false pretences or with promises of hefty salaries, in a Moscow operation to replace heavy casualties in its own ranks.
Another video, published on Sunday, allegedly shows a group of new African mercenaries in a snow-covered forest singing songs in their own language. The Russian soldier filming says: “Look how many disposables there are.”
Laughing at the upbeat troops, he adds that “they will be singing differently” once they are deployed to the front.
Credit: Telegraph
