“I got my Russian visa and papers from the Kenyan official at JKIA [Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi]. I then boarded the plane to Istanbul and on to Russia.” This account of a Zimbabwean prisoner of war (POW) told of a familiar passage for most of the dozen African POWs interviewed about how they ended up fighting in Russia’s war in…
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