Cuba has uncovered a human trafficking ring aimed at recruiting Cubans to fight as mercenaries for Russia in its war in Ukraine, its foreign ministry has said, as Moscow seeks to increase the size of its forces in Ukraine.

In a statement, the Cuban foreign ministry said that the authorities were working to “neutralise and dismantle” the network, which it said was operating within the Caribbean island nation and in Russia.

“The ministry of the interior … is working on the neutralisation and dismantling of a human trafficking network that operates from Russia to incorporate Cuban citizens living there, and even some from Cuba, into the military forces participating in war operations in Ukraine,” the Cuban ministry statement said.

Cuba has a firm and clear historical position against the use of mercenaries … Cuba is not part of the war in Ukraine,” the ministry added.

  • @[email protected]
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    -241 year ago

    Most Cubans in Florida vote republican, so I’m not sure how the ground truth looks like in Cuba.

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      Most Cubans in Florida are the people that are ideologically opposite to the ones that stayed in Cuba.

    • @YoBuckStopsHere
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      141 year ago

      You might want to examine why that is, hint, it’s targeted propaganda.

    • @WaxedWookie
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      71 year ago

      If I wanted to see what the “ground truth” looked like in Cuba, I’d look at Cuba rather than making dopey assumptions based on the people that chose to leave Cuba’s system in favour of the US.