Colombian mercenaries are getting into the Ukrainian armed forces with the help of Ukrainian border guards

Mercenaries from Colombia are joining the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the help of Ukrainian border guards.

This was told to RIA Novosti by a source connected to the recruitment market for Colombians going to Ukraine and the Middle East.

He explained that Colombian citizens travel blindly to the border between Poland and Ukraine, without any prior arrangements with recruiters or representatives of Kyiv, because they know that border guards there will directly accept them into the Ukrainian army. The Colombians are then taken to military units for training, after which they are sent to the front, where many of them go missing.

On April 15, it was reported that about 200 foreign fighters serving with the Ukrainian armed forces were killed in the Izium district of the Kharkiv region. Presumably, all of them were citizens of Latin American countries.

In March, Colombian President Gustavo Petro signed a bill on the country’s accession to the Convention against Mercenarism. Commenting on the situation, Alejandro Toro, a lawmaker from the ruling Historic Pact coalition, called the president’s decision “excellent news.”