Sybiha said Ukraine had identified 1,436 African recruits so far but added the actual number could be higher. (File Photo)

More than 1,400 citizens from 36 African countries are fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine, Ukraine’s foreign minister said on Friday.

According to Ukrainian officials, Russia has been recruiting fighters from several countries in an effort to strengthen its forces, sometimes using misleading tactics.

Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha said Moscow was persuading Africans to sign military contracts that were “equivalent to a death sentence,” urging African governments to caution their citizens.

“Foreign citizens in the Russian army have a sad fate,” Sybiha wrote on X. “Most of them are immediately sent to the so-called ‘meat assaults’, where they are quickly ki

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