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A Cuban teenager was offered a job doing 'construction work' in Russia. Instead he was sent to fight on the front lines in Ukraine. (www.businessinsider.com)

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[-] Draegur@lemm.ee 40 points 1 year ago

yeah they hired him to rebuild THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE

joking aside, that poor kid...

[-] rogerhaase@mastodon.social -3 points 1 year ago

@Draegur @Five No poor kid. Stupid moron, at best. Working for the fascist terrorist state always means doing terror work.

[-] sorebuttfromsitting@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

take a look at yourself, old man

[-] Redditgee@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

TIME reviewed the job contracts, which it said required a one-year commitment, but came with an enlistment fee and a payout for the families of recruits if they are killed in action.

Uh... This seems pretty straightforward, to me.

[-] Thisfox@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, saying that they will be in action if they could die in action is pretty solid. Lost in translation perhaps?

[-] scv@discuss.online 17 points 1 year ago

I found this video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4838DPW9ETo&pp=ygUQY3ViYW5vcyBlbiBydXNpYQ%3D%3D

And they claim they were told they would rebuild cities destroyed in the war, but not take part in it. So they were expecting to go to Ukraine, just not as soldiers.

I don't have a lot of trust in any of the parties involved in this, I'm just reporting it.

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 12 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

A Cuban teenager unwittingly found himself on the front lines of the war in Ukraine after accepting a job offer he received on WhatsApp to do "construction work" for the Russian military, according to TIME magazine.

TIME reported that Vegas Díaz became part of a large operation that openly recruited hundreds of Cubans to join the Russian army to fight in Ukraine.

According to the magazine, the recruitment effort involved adverts for job contracts with the Ministry of Defence in Russia that began to appear on Cuban Facebook groups in June.

TIME reviewed the job contracts, which it said required a one-year commitment, but came with an enlistment fee and a payout for the families of recruits if they are killed in action.

They said that the Cuban government, a long-standing ally of Russia, may be using such language to maintain the appearance of a neutral stance in the Ukraine conflict, TIME reported.

The State Department said in a statement provided to TIME that "we are deeply concerned that young Cubans may have been deceived and recruited to fight for Russia in its brutal full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and we continue to monitor this situation closely."

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