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Russia has significantly intensified the recruitment of mercenaries from Africa for the full-scale war against Ukraine, Ukraine’s military intelligence (HUR) said on May 28. Moscow has been reportedly recruiting foreigners from such countries as Nepal, Somalia, India, Cuba, and others to fight in Ukraine from the very beginning of the all-out invasion. New mercenaries from Rwanda, Burundi, Congo, and Uganda are being recruited as assault troopers by a specially created unit of the Russian Defense Ministry, Ukraine’s military intelligence said. “The mercenaries are lured by a starting payment o…