2025-09-25 18:00
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2025-09-25 18:00
Since the outbreak of the war on a full -scale in Ukraine in 2022, about 20,000 have already been sent to this country. Cubans, to fight on the side of Russia, 'claims the independent online journal 14edio, citing the Ukrainian side.
According to the internet newspaper, information about such a large number of Cuban mercenaries who were transferred to the fight to Ukraine, on September 18 this year. During an online conference at the American Congress, a spokesman for Ukrainian military intelligence Andrij Jusow.
He added that the Ukrainian intelligence services have already established over 1,000 The names of Cubans fighting on the side of Russia, including the personal details of 40 killed during the war. One of them, as reported by 14medio, is Giovani Gomez Basulto, employed before leaving for war in one of the state mining companies in Cuba.
A non -governmental organization fighting for human rights for the democratization of Kuba (CTDC) estimates that in such a short time so many people to participate in the war have never been moved from this Caribbean island in such a short time.
She reminded that from 1968 Kuba began sending her instructors and soldiers to various regions of the world, where the USSR was involved in armed conflicts. She noted that the most of them, 36,000, were sent to a fight in Angola, a former Portuguese colony, but she added that they went there over several decades.
“The Constitution and the Cuba Penal Code prohibit the recruitment of mercenaries, but the government of our island did not stop this phenomenon learning about the participation of the Cubans in the ranks of the Russian army,” CTDC wrote in a statement.
Cuba's authorities deny that people to go to war to Ukraine are recruited on the island. (PAP)
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