{"id":227269,"date":"2026-01-28T12:25:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T17:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2026\/01\/28\/russia-lures-kenyans-into-fighting-in-ukraine-war-2\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T12:25:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T17:25:58","slug":"russia-lures-kenyans-into-fighting-in-ukraine-war-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2026\/01\/28\/russia-lures-kenyans-into-fighting-in-ukraine-war-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia lures Kenyans into fighting in Ukraine war"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>As Russia seeks to replenish its forces in nearly four years of war \u2014 and avoid an unpopular nationwide mobilization \u2014 it&rsquo;s pulling out all the stops to find new troops to send into the battlefield. This includes duping foreign nationals from Kenya, South Africa, Iraq and South Asian countries into signing up to fight by recruiters  promising jobs. FRANCE 24&rsquo;s Bastien Renouil spoke with parents of Kenyans suspected to have been tricked in such a way.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Russia seeks to replenish its forces in nearly four years of war \u2014 and avoid an unpopular nationwide mobilization \u2014 it&rsquo;s pulling out all the stops to find new troops to send into the battlefield. This includes duping foreign nationals from Kenya, South Africa, Iraq and South Asian countries into signing up to fight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[21,22],"class_list":["post-227269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-une","category-news","tag-monde","tag-world","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}