{"id":39888,"date":"2025-11-06T16:44:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=39888"},"modified":"2025-11-06T16:05:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:05:48","slug":"global-south-is-rescuing-its-citizens-from-kremlin-recruitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/global-south\/global-south-is-rescuing-its-citizens-from-kremlin-recruitment\/","title":{"rendered":"Global South is rescuing its citizens from Kremlin recruitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South African government announced that it received requests for help from 17 citizens who were lured into mercenary work under the guise of &#8220;profitable contracts.&#8221; On November 2, in Delhi, the capital of India, a protest was held by families whose relatives were deceitfully recruited into the russian army \u2014 they demanded the return of their loved ones and punishment for the recruiters.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Kenyan police uncovered a human trafficking network involved in recruiting people &#8220;for work in russia,&#8221; which in reality was sending them to the front lines, thus saving more than 20 people.<\/p>\n<p>russia is systematically building transnational channels for hiring &#8220;cannon fodder&#8221; and forced labor, exploiting unemployment and the vulnerability of citizens in various countries of the Global South. This poses a threat to human rights and international security.<\/p>\n<p>The Center previously reported that the kremlin disguises global recruitment as &#8220;employment&#8221; and &#8220;cooperation with security agencies,&#8221; deploying hybrid networks for the war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South African government announced that it received requests for help from 17 citizens who were lured into mercenary work under the guise of &#8220;profitable contracts.&#8221; On November 2, in Delhi, the capital of India, a protest was held by families whose relatives were deceitfully recruited into the russian army \u2014 they demanded the return&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":39889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":933,"footnotes":""},"categories":[933],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-south"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}