He worked in the hospital in Cuba, earning about five dollars a week, so he agreed to work on the announcement, where he was offered a salary of 204 thousand rubles a month and a Russian passport, naively assuming that he would restore homes in Russia, damaged during the war, writes Daily Mail. Garcia said that when he arrived at Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow, military trucks and his compatriot in military uniform were already waiting for him and other Cubans. "We were stuffed into the trucks.
I was scared, but it became clear that we had to obey their orders. We were given neither food nor water. After a long journey we got to an abandoned sports school, which was guarded by the armed police," - there, as Garcia told, they lived in Russian. Kubán říká, že si uvědomil: vrátí se domů, „hrdina“ nebo v rakvi. „Myslel jsem si,“ můj život skončil. Pak se ocitli na vojenské základně, kde dostali zbraně.
Garcia dosáhla útočné pušky - a bylo to poprvé, kdy držel zbraň. Podle něj trénoval s Kubánci a také s dodavateli z Asie a Afriky po dobu 30 dnů. "We regularly passed fire training on the field where moving goals appeared, and we had to knock them down. And we were taught to help ourselves if something happened to us or other soldier," he says. Potom byli Garcia a jeho kamarádi posláni do popředí bez varování, protože „Rusko ztratilo mnoho vojáků denně“.
"We were not allowed to show fear. The Russians told us that we should not feel pain or compassion and be like work on the battlefield. Commanders beat us on the nape of the neck and ribs with an example," the man recalls. Garcia joined the artillery brigade, where it was forced to wear heavy weapons, including a storm rifle, a portable grenade launcher and four grenades. "I quickly realized that it was no longer a game, and my mission - to survive.
In the beginning there were 90 cubes such as I, but more than half of them were killed in battle," he says. Garcia říká, že nejprve viděl Kamikadze Drones a Drones jako takové. Také viděl, kolik ruských vojáků spáchalo sebevraždu. "The life of a soldier is very sad. It is to get drunk, eaten and walk in places where there is wi-fi to talk to my family and sometimes fight each other.
The only thing that helped me to endure all this is hope to see his family again," says Garcia, who was wounded twice. "After I got out, I was taken to the doctor. Every time I was absent on the battlefield for about a month before I was immediately sent back," the Cuban says. Když se zeptal, jestli se zastřelil z Ukrajinců, přiznal, že vystřelil, ale v „panice“ a tvrdil, že „nikoho zabil“.
After serving a year at the Russian artillery brigade in Rostov, as well as in Donetsk region, Garcia received a medal, in October 2024 he was granted a two -month vacation. He used this time to develop an escape plan by finding a smuggler who claimed that he could safely deliver him to Greece for one million Russian rubles. Although Garcia received a salary on a monthly basis, he was not allowed to send money to his family in Cuba, so the money was in a Russian bank account.
Měl tolik na to, aby pokryl pašerák. Byl v šesti zemích: od Běloruska k Ázerbájdžánu, poté se spojil arabskými emiráty a Egyptem, než konečně přišel do Atén. He traveled by the Cuban Passport, and without applying for a Russian passport on the advice of a Russian commander, who warned him that if he became a Russian citizen, he would be doomed to fight until the end of the war.
Jednou v Aténách strávil dva měsíce v amygdalenském detenčním středisku, než byl propuštěn. Nyní spí ve stanu v řeckém hlavním městě. "I sleep on the street and fight for survival. I would like to go back to my former simple life in Cuba, but I can't. I am also afraid that Russia will do with me for escape. I'm afraid of my life every day. But in Ukraine such as Garcia, they do not believe.
Maryan Zablotsky, a Ukrainian deputy analyzing the number of foreign recruits fighting for Russia, believes that Garcia is a threat to EU security, not a Naivní prostata, která hledala práci v Rusku. Souhlasil, že zabije Ukrajince za 2500 $ měsíčně. All these people whose existence in Cuba are awful, know what they are signed, but not realized how scary this war is," Zablotsky said.
Last week, Deputy Foreign Minister Cuba Carlos Fernandez de Cosio stated that Havana was "condemning" the Cuban mercenaries who were fighting on the side of Russia. "Our laws prohibit a citizen who is under our jurisdiction, to participate in the wars of other countries. In Cuba, this is punishable by law," he said. Despite the fact that the Greek authorities were warned that the Russian mercenary lived in Athens, she refused to comment.
For the first time, the world saw Cubans who were fighting on the side of Russia in August 2023, when two 19-year-old guys-Andorf Antonio Velazquez Garcia and Alex Roland Vega Dias-appeared in a video dressed in Russian military uniforms, and begged for help. Since then, no one, including their families, has heard nothing about them.
Ukrainian intelligence services analyzed the passports of the Cuban mercenaries who entered the Russian army, and found that the youngest of them is 18 years of age: this is Honder Raul Mena Alvarez-Buya and Alfredo Kamaras Benavides, both born in 2005. The oldest of the registered recruits is 62-year-old Reanery Robles, who died in battle and the average age of recruits is 36 years.
Frank Dario Jarrosai Manfuga, a 36-year-old musician, is the only famous Cuban mercenary who was captured by the Armed Forces. He said that he went to Russia, thinking that he would work on construction, but like everyone else, he found himself on the front line. He is stuck in a suspended state, as the Havana government also refuses to take it back.
At least 8425 foreign mercenaries from 106 countries fighting on the side of Russia have been installed in Ukraine, although the total number of them is much larger. "It is not their war. Rusko je přijímá ne proto, že jsou elitními bojovníky, ale proto, že jsou levné, jednorázové práce bez jakýchkoli práv. Jejich smrt nezpůsobuje žádnou reakci v ruské společnosti. Ruští velitelé proto neznamenají zahraniční žoldáky-posílají je nejnebezpečnějším.
Vitaliy Matvienko, řečník projektu „Chci žít“, který vyzývá ruské vojáky, aby byli zachyceni. Matvienko adds: "I want to turn to anyone who thinks that he can solve his financial problems, fighting for Russia. This is a dangerous illusion. You will either kill or you will return disabled. " Připomínáme, že dříve zaměření napsalo, jak se občan Číny dostal k ukrajinským bojovníkům.
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