Russia is luring men from Syria to use them as cannon fodder in battles in Ukraine’s east, the Ukrainian military intelligence agency (HUR) said on Sept. 17. Throughout the full-scale war, Moscow has been using various schemes to enlist migrants and foreign nationals to offset the heavy losses it had suffered during the invasion while avoiding full mobilization. Syria, a country ravaged by civil war and largely ruled by the Kremlin’s ally Bashar al-Assad, is one of the key targets of these efforts. “Russia has established a scheme with travel companies to recruit Syrians for the war against Uk…
