Fighters in the Central African Republic have pledged allegiance to the Kremlin and said they are preparing to enter the war in Ukraine.
A group of ten heavily armed soldiers appeared in a video saying they would soon be joining their “Russian brothers” on the front line to bring “peace and order”.
President Putin has also given the green light to bring in thousands of “volunteers” from the Middle East.
At a meeting this morning, Sergei Shoigu, the Russian defence minister, said there were 16,000 “volunteers in the Middle East who were ready to come to fight with Russian-backed forces in the breakaway Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.
President Touadéra oversees a nation of five million people and 80 ethnic groups. Learning Russian is to become compulsory for university students in the Central African Republic from as soon as next year in a reflection of Moscow’s growing influence…
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