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🇷🇺🇺🇦 - REPORT: Russia Widens Drive to Recruit Africans to Fight in Ukraine as Foreign Recruits Near 46,000 - Russia is stepping up recruitment in poorer African countries such as Zimbabwe, Burundi and Sierra Leone to make up for a shortage of troops, according to a Ukrainian report seen by Bloomberg. Moscow turned to those countries after Kenya and South Africa issued warnings - Ukraine has identified 45,959 foreigners from 151 countries who signed contracts with the Russian army, Ukrainian Brig. Gen. Dmytro Usov said. In the first nine months of 2026 alone, 699 citizens of Burundi and 530 of Zimbabwe signed up