Dancan Chege, a 30-year-old from Kimende, Kenya, was lured to Russia with a promise of a truck driving job but found himself on the front lines of the Ukraine war. Kenya’s National Intelligence Service reported over 1,000 Kenyans recruited for combat, with many being misled. Chege narrowly escaped after witnessing horrific scenes of death and feigning insanity to return home, highlighting a troubling trend of fraudulent recruitment affecting young men from across Africa.
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