Soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine captured a Russian mercenary from Sierra Leone in the area of Mariyinka.

KARYMAT Telegram channel announced this.

It is not reported which unit of the Russian army the mercenary was in or under what circumstances he was captured.

Mercenaries in the Russian military

Militarnyi previously reported that the Nepalese government had asked Russia to send back hundreds of Nepalese citizens who Russia illegally recruited to participate in the Russian-Ukrainian war.

The Nepalese government has also requested Russia to repatriate the bodies of those who died. Nepal’s Foreign Minister Narayan Prakash Saud stated that the Russian military had recruited over 200 Nepalese citizens to fight in Ukraine, and at least 14 of them were killed.

It was also reported that police in Nepal detained ten people on suspicion of illegally recruiting the country’s residents into the Russian military.

The detainees illegally charged each person up to $9,000 and sent them to Russia on “tourist visas,” mainly through the UAE.

They were then recruited into the Russian military. In October of this year, Ukrainian troops captured a Russian mercenary from Nepal in the Avdiyivka direction.

In October 2023, The New York Times reported on dozens of Nepalese who signed contracts with the Russian army and went to war in Ukraine.

Many of them did so due to low wages and unemployment in the country. The Nepalese government does not allow its citizens to serve in foreign armies, except for the armed forces of India and the United Kingdom.

In addition to representatives of African and Asian nations, Europeans are also fighting on the side of the Russians. For example, in January, it was reported that Dejan Beric, a Serbian mercenary who serves in the Russian invasion military, complained about chauvinism and inhuman treatment by the Russian military.

According to Beric, the command of the 119th Guards Airborne Regiment in Ryazan has repeatedly displayed chauvinism and outright racism towards Serbs, calling them “gypsies,” asking why they came and refusing medical care.