Report: Russia Now Recruiting Yemen Fighters For Ukraine War
Financial Times: Recruiting “operation .. highlights the growing links between Moscow and the Houthi” terrorist group.
After pulling in North Koreans, Russia is reportedly recruiting Yemeni mercenaries to fight in its war against Ukraine, the British newspaper Financial Times reported Sunday.
The Russian military, backed by Yemen’s Houthi Islamic terror group, “recruited hundreds of Yemeni men to fight in Ukraine,” the business daily wrote, citing U.S. officials.
The news comes as President Vladimir Putin seeks to strengthen his bargaining position before U.S. President Donald Trump takes office on January 20.
Russia is increasingly relying on foreign fighters and mercenaries as the war in Ukraine intensifies. According to the U.S. Defense Department, “11,000 to 12,000 North Korean troops” were currently deployed in Russia’s Kurks region, which was invaded by the Ukrainian military in early August in a bid to ease the pressure on its forces facing a Russian offensive in the country’s eastern Donbas region.
The Financial Times reported:
Russia’s armed forces have recruited hundreds of Yemeni men to fight in Ukraine, brought by a shadowy trafficking operation that highlights the growing links between Moscow and the Houthi rebel group.
Yemeni recruits who travelled to Russia told the Financial Times they were promised high salaried employment and even Russian citizenship. When they arrived with the help of a Houthi-linked company, they were then forcibly inducted into the Russian army and sent to the front lines in Ukraine. (…)
The Yemeni recruitment effort also underscores how Russia, driven by its confrontation with the west, is growing closer to Iran and allied militant groups in the Middle East. The Houthis, a militant group backed by Tehran, disrupted global supply chains with a missile campaign targeting shipping in the Red Sea after the start of the war in Gaza last year.
US diplomats say the entente between the Kremlin and the Houthis, unimaginable before the war in Ukraine, is a sign of how far Russia is willing to go to extend that conflict into new theatres including the Middle East.
US special envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking confirmed Russia is actively pursuing contacts with the Houthis and discussing weapons transfers, though he declined to be more specific.
“We know that there are Russian personnel in Sana’a helping to deepen this dialogue,” he said. “The kinds of weapons that are being discussed are very alarming, and would enable the Houthis to better target ships in the Red Sea and possibly beyond.”
Contracts signed by the Yemenis, seen by the FT, listed a company founded by Abdulwali Abdo Hassan al-Jabri, a prominent Houthi politician. (…)
The recruitment of Yemeni soldiers appears to have begun as early as July. One enlistment contract seen by the FT was dated July 3, and was countersigned by the head of a selection centre for contract soldiers in the city of Nizhnii Novgorod.
BREAKING
First video appears of Houthi mercenaries fighting with the Russians against Ukraine
Financial Times reports that “hundreds” of Houthis joined the Russian Army after a Houthi-linked company secured their transfer
North Korean & Houthi soldiers are now invading Europe pic.twitter.com/Q4vSNiNbqX
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) November 24, 2024
Russia’s forces appear to be advancing at a rapid pace in eastern Ukraine, making their most significant territorial gains in more than two years.
“Russian forces are advancing in Ukraine at the fastest rate since the early days of the 2022 invasion, taking an area half the size of London over the past month,” Reuters reported Tuesday, citing military analysts. “The Russian army captured almost 235 sq km (91 sq miles) in Ukraine over the past week, a weekly record for 2024,” the news agency said, quoting Russian sources.
The Financial Times noted that the recruiting of fighters exposes “the growing links between Moscow and the Houthi” Islamic terrorist group.
Iran-sponsored Houthis declared war on Israel in the wake of the October 7 massacre. Since October 2023, the Houthis have fired hundreds of drones and rockets at Israel. They have been targeting Western-owned cargo vessels in the Red Sea in a bid to impose an illegal shipping embargo on Israel.
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That doesn’t seem like a frontline force then, with such small numbers. Wonder what they’re going to be used for.
Propaganda and the scare factor. How many illegals have invaded Europe from Muslin countries? This data is at least three years old. Pew research seem really slanted to to cover things up. I would not trust Financial Time or Reuters. They are the Warhawks mouth piece.
The Duran is a good starting point and some of the more regional newspapers.
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/interactive-publications/demography-2023
Moroccans, Syrians and Albanians largest groups acquiring citizenship across EU Member States
Looking at the period 2016 to 2021, the total number of citizenships granted to non-nationals in the EU was lowest in 2018 (672 000) and highest in 2016 (844 000). In 2021, 827 000 citizenships were granted by EU Member States, a 13% increase compared with 2020. In terms of original citizenships, the largest groups acquiring citizenship of an EU Member State in 2020 and 2021 were Moroccans and Syrians (both 10% of all citizenships granted by an EU Member State in 2021) and Albanians (4%). During the period 2016 to 2019, Moroccans and Albanians were the largest two groups
citizenship of an EU Member State, ahead of Turks from 2015 until 2018 and of Britons in 2019.
Clearing minefields.
Yea, our mines
Good. The more of them that
dieachieve martyrdom outside the middle east, the better.Except it really does not address the immigration problem that is the true invasion.
Putin doesn’t really want to use up those oh so European looking young men from Moscow and Sankt Petersburg. Might upset the public.
So how many special forces do we have in Ukraine?
Understanding title 10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4U0mRt64c4
Undisciplined Muslim mercenaries will get their heads blown off in short order.
Russia will pay a $5k bounty to family. And Houthi intermediaries will skim $3k of it (pbuh lol).
The Duran is a good source.
https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDuran/videos
Moon Of Alabama was a once “go to” site but following for awhile, I have discredited it and its propaganda is at the level of FT, W Compost, NYT and BBC but in the opposite direction.
There are some nice interactive sites that have actual clips on the fighting linked. If interested I will post.
This site has always been useful:
https://turcopolier.com/
“Russian forces are advancing in Ukraine at the fastest rate since the early days of the 2022 invasion, taking an area half the size of London over the past month,”
An area half the size of London isn’t very much of a territory as large as Ukraine. That is like moving inches on a football field.
This is a problem if you believe the lefts propaganda that Russia is losing (Narrator, they are not losing).
I wonder where all the CEASEFIRE NOW goons are or do Ukrainians just get to keep dying to keep this war going?
As long as that fraud Zelenskyy is in charge and Washington D.C. keeps giving him billions in U.S. taxpayer dollars Ukrainians are going to continue to die until there’s no more people available to defend Ukraine. At that point Zelenskyy will high-tail it out of Kyiv and disappear with the bulk of the U.S. funds given to his country and that will be the end of the war.
I am sure there is a Swiss bank willing to take 155mm munitions as a deposit, and another one willing to take 7.62mm bullets.
The aid Ukraine gets is military supply that are vital to keeping the country alive.
It is also a little blip in our military (let alone total) budget.
Do you have any proof Biden would be using the same funds for something you would like instead of stopping Putin from conquering Ukraine if Putin had not invaded?
Not my sandbox.
It doesn’t concern me if there are Yemeni monkeys in it.
LOL, that should have read “circus”, not sandbox.
We have like 700 sandboxes around the world
Iran-sponsored Houthis.
‘Biden Keeps the Billions Flowing to Iran’- WSJ, Nov. 2023
‘Biden announces $425 million in military aid for Ukraine’ – Reuters, Oct. 2024
Funding both sides. The mil/indust complex must have a perpetual woody for Biden. All of ’em belong in prison.
Yemeni jihadists will travel to fight against Ukraine? This is about the only thing I can think of that would get me to support continued funding for Obama’s proxy war against Russia, if only for a little while (long enough to kill every last Yemeni jihadist).
We could even stay a little longer that that to kill Hamas, Houthies, ISIS, and any other jihadists who want to jump in as well.
“What am I signing here?” — Joe Biden
This doesn’t sound like increased cooperation to me. Yemini’s are being lured to Russia with promises of high paying jobs and citizenship but when they get there are forced into the Russian Army and marched to the front. Along with the North Koreans it sounds more like Russia is having a harder and harder time finding people willing to fight.
Probably so. Promises are cheap and even the follow through on them will be for minimal numbers remaining. Ukraine has their own long-standing issues with finding bodies to field. Not many folks want to be a central part of this meat grinder on either side which seems very reasonable to me. Especially considering the loudest voices in favor of continuing the conflict can’t seem to find the recruiting office to get to the front lines themselves.
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