A few days earlier, a Cuban media based in the United States published the statements of several Cubans, including two young men, who claimed to have been deceived through Facebook into working as bricklayers Ukraine busy.
It all started with the video testimony of Alex Vegas and Andorf Velázquez on the private broadcaster America TeVé based in Miami. From a bus on a road southeast of Moscow, the two very young men say they were recruited via social networks to work alongside the Russian army on construction sites in Ukraine.
After departing from Havana on a commercial flight, they said they were taken to a military base in Russia and mistreated. “We don’t sleep. We can not. They can come to harm us at any time. Please come to us as soon as possible! “, You say.
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“I was also allowed to get papers”
Other testimonies collected by the channel underscore the Cubans’ motivation for making the trip. Like this anonymous witness, an undocumented migrant who would have been recruited in Russia itself. “I do this for the salary. I was also allowed to get papers for myself and also for my family here in Russia,” he says.
Several witnesses supported by America TeVé speak of Russian and Cuban interlocutors who are responsible for the recruitment Cuba even. The Cuban authorities promise to use “the force of the law” to take action against the perpetrators of these operations. An opportunity for the regime, which has moved closer to Moscow since the invasion of Ukraine, to deny any involvement.
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