By emir @Adobe Stock
José de Córdoba of The Wall Street Journal tells his readers that Cubans, eager to escape the Communist island’s poverty are signing what they thought was a work contract to dig trenches in Ukraine. The dream job is quickly turned into a nightmare as they find themselves used as “cannon fodder” on the front line. He writes:
On a blazing hot day in November, Raibel Palacio and three neighborhood friends boarded a flight at Cuba’s Varadero beach resort, taking selfies and chattering in excitement. They had a job offer that promised a way out of the island’s misery.
A few weeks later, Palacio was killed by a drone as he tried to tie a tourniquet to staunch the bleeding from a leg wound on the freezing front lines of Ukraine, said Danelia Herrera, his mother.
“Cubans are cannon fodder and they will kill them all,” she said, weeping in her home, a wooden shack on the outskirts of Havana. […]
In a video recording of Andorf and his friend Alex Vega, the two slightly built young men said they ended up on the front lines in Ukraine after signing contracts in Russian that they couldn’t understand. They warn other Cubans not to follow them.
“There are a lot of Cubans who have disappeared,” Vega said in the recording. “If you are thinking about coming to Russia, don’t.”
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