Putin verbietet die Rekrutierung ausländischer Soldaten, um afrikanische Verbündete zu besänftigen: Truppen beschweren sich, dass sie unter Vorspiegelung falscher Tatsachen nach Russland gelockt wurden, während Videos offenbar Vorfälle von Misshandlungen zeigen
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/02/25/putin-bans-foreign-soldiers-to-placate-african-allies/
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Here is the original source that *The Telegraph* cites: [https://istories.media/news/2026/02/23/rossiya-ogranichila-verbovku-naemnikov-iz-druzhestvennikh-stran/](https://istories.media/news/2026/02/23/rossiya-ogranichila-verbovku-naemnikov-iz-druzhestvennikh-stran/)
This is not going to help recruitment levels…
Does anyone believe him? He can claim „old videos“ for a good while. Either way, hopefully this is a start of the dwindling of Russia’s African resource parasitism.
Putin claim to ban. He lies a lot.
I would not take putin word at face value.
There’s apparently a list of 40-50 countries, not just African ones, but Brazil, India and others are also on it.