It comes after India said it was working to bring home citizens who say they were tricked into fighting for Russia in Ukraine.

Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/9777654

The footage, shared by Russian military correspondent Pavel Kukushkin on his Telegram channel, shows two men sitting opposite each other at a table, communicating in Russian and Chinese via a voice electronic translator.

“The Chinese unit in the Pyatnashka brigade is growing. More and more [Chinese] are constantly arriving. Our Chinese brothers have also come to us,” a Russian serviceman said in the video published by Kukushkin.

The video comes shortly after India said it was working to bring home some 20 of its citizens who say they were tricked into fighting for Russia on the front lines in Ukraine.

Some Indian citizens recruited by Russia told AFP that they were promised roles that wouldn’t involved fighting on the front lines, but when they arrived in Russia, they were trained to use weapons including Kalashnikov assault rifles and deployed to Ukraine.

  • Lemminary@lemmy.world
    61·
    8 months ago

    Are there any other news sources running this story? I don’t think I trust Newsweek that much.

      • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
        3·
        8 months ago

        While “some blogger on telegram” is slightly more reputable than Newsweek, I’m gonna need more proof than this.

        • 0x815@feddit.deOP
          3·
          8 months ago

          It’s not that ‘some’ blogger said that, but a Russian military blogger published a footage of two men, obviously one Chinese and one Russian. It’s a video shared on a Russian channel.

          The footage […] shows two men sitting opposite each other at a table, communicating in Russian and Chinese via a voice electronic translator.

          “The Chinese unit in the Pyatnashka brigade is growing. More and more [Chinese] are constantly arriving. Our Chinese brothers have also come to us,” a Russian serviceman said in the video published by Kukushkin.