At the beginning of October they began to arrive the first rumors about the presence of North Korean soldiers in Russia for their eventual entry into combat in Ukraine. Shortly after, South Korean and United States intelligence, among others, confirmed what was an open secret: that nearly 12,000 troops North Koreans They had been deployed to the Russian region of Kursk (occupied since the summer by Ukraine) to fight alongside Kremlin forces.
Now, while they continue to lose troops dizzying speeds – a total of 600,000 in the two and a half years of war – the Russian Armed Forces have recruited hundreds of Yemeni combatants, according to the report this Sunday. Financial Times (FT). Specifically, they would be Houthi rebels, one of Iran’s proxies in the Middle East.
According to the British newspaper, it was the Yemeni mercenaries those who have revealed that, through an intermediary company, they were promised high salaries and even Russian nationality in exchange for fighting alongside Moscow’s troops in Ukraine. For his part, the US special envoy for Yemen, Tim Lenderking, has assured the FT that Russia is maintaining active contacts with the Houthis for the exchange of weapons, although he has not provided further details.
Capture of a video released by Ukrainian forces in which several Russian soldiers surrender in the Kursk region.
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In this sense, the incorporation of Yemeni mercenaries highlights how Moscow is increasingly finding itself closer to Iran and their allied groups. An alliance between two pariah states based, mainly, in contrast to the West.
Likewise, this is also an example of the increasing presence of soldiers from other nationalities due to the reluctance of the Russian Government to decree a general mobilization in your country. In fact, this very week, the Kremlin denied carrying out a new wave of mobilization of reservists to fight in Ukraine with a view to the fourth year of fighting in the neighboring country.
This is an attempt to avoid a repeat of what happened in September 2022, when a partial recruitment (some 300,000 men were called up) unleashed a wave of discontent and indignation in the country and caused the exodus of hundreds of thousands of men of military age.
At the moment, the presence of mercenaries from Nepal and India has already been registered in the conflict in Ukraine, to which must be added those 12,000 North Korean soldiers sent to support the Russian troops in the defense of Kursk.
Over the past year, following the start of Israel’s war in Gaza, the Houthis have launched attacks on global supply chains by launching missiles at ships. cargo ships in the Red Sea. They have also attacked Israeli territory on several occasions as a show of support for the Palestinian Hamas militia and the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah.
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