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Nairobi sounds alarm over recruiters luring Kenyans into Russian war effort

Soldiers at a training ground near Kupiansk, in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine, on 9 November 2025. © AP - Anatolii Lysianskyi

Kenya has pledged to crack down on overseas recruitment networks after hundreds of its citizens were lured to Russia with promises of work, only to be sent to military camps and, in some cases, the front line in Ukraine.

The government announced this week that 18 Kenyans who had been sent to fight on the Ukrainian front had been repatriated from Russia as part of a diplomatic push to assist Kenyans who have found themselves trapped in Russian military camps.

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