{"id":45407,"date":"2026-03-30T15:12:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=45407"},"modified":"2026-03-30T16:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:00:15","slug":"kremlin-is-actively-recruiting-foreign-mercenaries-from-countries-of-global-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/global-south\/kremlin-is-actively-recruiting-foreign-mercenaries-from-countries-of-global-south\/","title":{"rendered":"kremlin is actively recruiting foreign mercenaries from countries of Global South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>russia continues to use its presence in countries of the Global South to recruit mercenaries for the war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, russia is actively recruiting mercenaries among Cuban citizens. At present, at least 10,000 Cubans have been recruited.<\/p>\n<p>The example of Cuban mercenaries confirms that the russians&#8217; activities in countries of the Global South, disguised as &#8220;cultural cooperation&#8221;, are a deliberate campaign to expand geopolitical influence and recruit mercenaries.<\/p>\n<p>By recruiting mercenaries from other countries, the russians traditionally resort to disinformation, promising candidates large monetary rewards, russian citizenship, and &#8220;easy&#8221; service, which mostly has nothing to do with reality.<\/p>\n<p>The recruitment of mercenaries in countries of the Global South is one of the kremlin&#8217;s ways to compensate for huge losses on the frontline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>russia continues to use its presence in countries of the Global South to recruit mercenaries for the war against Ukraine. According to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, russia is actively recruiting mercenaries among Cuban citizens. At present, at least 10,000 Cubans have been recruited. The example of Cuban mercenaries&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":45408,"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-45407","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\/45407","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=45407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}