Activists warn Zimbabwean youth against deceptive Russia-Ukraine war recruitment

Human rights activists took to the streets this week, distributing fliers urging young Zimbabweans to resist deceptive recruitment into the Russia-Ukraine war, as President Emmerson Mnangagwa attends the Russia-Africa Summit in Moscow.

The campaign comes amid mounting evidence of a deadly trafficking pipeline that has already claimed Zimbabwean lives.

The recruitment drive has also targeted young women through Russia’s “Alabuga Start” initiative, advertised as a training programme but linked to drone production for the war effort.

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