A new section has launched on StopRussianRecruiters.org, an information resource created by the Coordination Headquarters together with Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which will publish data on individuals involved in fraudulent recruitment of foreigners into the Russian army.
The Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War reported this.
The Recruiters section publishes profiles of agents and intermediaries whose information in open sources is linked to the recruitment of foreign nationals for service in the Russian armed forces. In particular, this concerns cases in which people are lured to Russia under the pretext of civilian work, misled about the real conditions of service, or targeted through fraudulent recruitment schemes. Even those who knowingly agree to serve often become victims of deception: they do not receive the promised payments or lose money due to the actions of recruiters. People from economically vulnerable communities around the world become victims of such schemes, including from African countries.
It is noted that international human rights organisations, the media, and governments of various countries are paying increasing attention to the problem of Russian recruitment, which is used to replenish the Russian armed forces’ losses in the war against Ukraine.
StopRussianRecruiters.org collects, systematises, and publishes information that is already publicly available in order to warn potential victims, draw the international community’s attention to the problem, and make such information more accessible.
The project also calls on victims, their relatives, and witnesses to report recruitment cases. All submissions are processed confidentially.