{"id":51664,"date":"2026-09-28T17:07:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T14:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=51664"},"modified":"2026-09-28T13:29:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T10:29:54","slug":"the-kremlin-steps-up-recruitment-of-mercenaries-in-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/global-south\/the-kremlin-steps-up-recruitment-of-mercenaries-in-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"The kremlin steps up recruitment of mercenaries in Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>russia continues to invest significant resources in recruiting citizens of countries in the Global South to fight against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f Advertisements for service in the russian army are being actively circulated in Thailand\u2019s information space. Thai citizens are lured into the war with promises of large sums of money \u2014 around $70,000 per contract \u2014 assurances that they will serve far from the front lines, and the prospect of obtaining russian citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>In practice, however, in most cases, foreigners from Global South countries recruited in this way are sent to the most dangerous areas of the front and do not receive the promised payments.<\/p>\n<p>Seeking to compensate for heavy losses and the significant decline in the number of russians willing to fight, the kremlin is increasingly turning to the recruitment of foreigners, resorting to manipulation and outright deception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>russia continues to invest significant resources in recruiting citizens of countries in the Global South to fight against Ukraine. \u25ab\ufe0f Advertisements for service in the russian army are being actively circulated in Thailand\u2019s information space. Thai citizens are lured into the war with promises of large sums of money \u2014 around $70,000 per contract \u2014&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":51665,"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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[933],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51664","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\/51664","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=51664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51667,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51664\/revisions\/51667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}