{"id":15167,"date":"2023-09-07T22:07:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T19:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=15167"},"modified":"2023-09-07T22:07:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T19:07:33","slug":"moscow-is-recruiting-cubans-to-fight-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=15167","title":{"rendered":"Moscow is recruiting Cubans to fight in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Money, relocation to Russia and the granting of citizenship were promised by a Russian network recruiting Cuban citizens to fight in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cuban authorities announced the evidence they gathered on the case at a press conference on Tuesday, in one of the rare cases in which Havana has clashed with one of its key allies, Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Russians seem to have cast their &#8220;nets&#8221; through the internet and more specifically through Facebook pages, where Cubans expressed their interest. The profit was not negligible: a monthly salary of 2,090 dollars and the promise that the volunteers themselves and their families would become Russian citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some testimonies from young Cubans already on Ukrainian soil say they were victims of fraud. According to the American newspaper America TeVe of Miami, two 19-year-olds posted a video a few days ago, in which they claim that they went to work as construction workers in Russia and found themselves, along with other foreign citizens, being promoted to a military unit in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The British intelligence services claim for their part that the Kremlin is implementing an extensive plan to recruit foreign citizens from Russia&#8217;s neighboring (mainly) countries, in order to meet the needs of the Russian Army in the war with Kiev.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Money, relocation to Russia and the granting of citizenship were promised by a Russian network recruiting Cuban citizens to fight in Ukraine. Cuban authorities&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[820,821,390],"tags":[2555,58,1156],"class_list":["post-15167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-america","category-asia","category-politics","tag-cuba","tag-russia","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15169,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15167\/revisions\/15169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}