SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico.- A 35-year-old Cuban, a math trainer and musician, who’s now a prisoner of battle in Ukraine, offered distinctive statements to The Americas Newspaper about his revel in on the struggle front, on the Russian side, and the process through which he were given right here to enlist to battle.
Interviewed by way of Orlando Gutiérrez-Boronat, national secretary of the Cuban Resistance Assembly (ARC), Frank Darío Jarrosay Manfuga, an area of Guantánamo, outlined that he was once not searching for battle, on the other hand moderately was once fleeing from “poverty, lack of freedom and the suffocating keep watch over of the Castro regime, which penetrates each and every aspect of Cuban life.”
His testimony, printed this Tuesday, July 23, in The Americas Newspaper, He says that he were given right here to Russia for “a possibility for enlargement”, a job in development that was once now not the rest more than a contract to enroll in the Russian ranks throughout the invasion of Ukraine, from where he had to watch Cubans die.
“I were given right here proper right here out of necessity,” the more youthful man steered Gutiérrez-Boronat from a Ukrainian prison. He, like other Cubans who’ve declared themselves victims of an equivalent situations, were given right here as a result of an alleged job offer through which he was once offered 250,000 rubles a month (more than 2,700 dollars a month) and Russian nationality, on the other hand ended up involved throughout the battle.
“Cubans have a hard time, and being put in a place like this, with all kinds of foods and promises, you’re announcing: this is solid. On the other hand whilst you sign the contract you realize life another way,” said Jarrosay Manfuga, captured in March by way of Ukrainian forces.
The affect of battle
He moreover confessed that the positioning when he arrived in Russia had a very good affect on him: “After I were given right here proper right here, I was surprised by way of the battle. They steered me, ‘Put on your uniform, transfer proper right here and switch forward.’”
On the battlefield, in step with the aforementioned media, he spotted 4 Cubans die in a bombing carried out by way of the Ukrainians. “That was once on Sunday, February 14, I’ve to take a look on the calendar, in all probability my ideas is failing me. On the other hand I moreover spotted 15 Russians die. They have got been all more youthful. This happened in a Ukrainian bombing towards a Russian base in Donetsk.”
The tragic revel in, alternatively, isn’t a sufficient the reason why to want to return to Cuba because of there “you’ll now not are living, even though you want to have talents.”
Escaping the island has moreover been the reason why many have opted to battle on the side of one of the vital necessary great allies of the Cuban dictatorship.
Used to be a mercenary
Now, from trainer and musician, turned into mercenary, he recalled the revel in of various Cubans in Angola, where moreover they went as mercenaries, beneath orders from Fidel Castro: “Many Cubans who went to Angola are without palms and brushed aside there. And in my opinion, in recent years the wars are however in energy.”
The presence of Cubans in Russia’s battle towards Ukraine was once confirmed when in August 2023 two 19-year-olds, Andorf Velázquez García and Alex Vegas Díaz, denounced in a video that they’d been deceived a couple of trip to Moscow.
Throughout the recording, the more youthful men outlined that they’d signed a contract (in Russian) to consult with art work there, on the other hand in reality they’ve been going to enroll in the army of that country. As well as they said they’ve been without bureaucracy (which were taken transparent of them) and assured that there were many further other people in their situation.
Ukrainian activists from the Cyber Resistance team have provided the worldwide volunteer team InformNapalm with “unique evidence of the recruitment, training and turn to Russia of entire units of Cuban mercenaries.”
For his segment, a senior Ukrainian legitimate denounced in March that Plenty of Cuban soldiers had been sent to their country for granted away result of the Cuban government’s “close collaboration” in “the shameful Russian invasion.”
The Ukrainian leader referred to the signing of military and repressive agreements right through the visits to Cuba between 2023 and 2024 by way of the Russian Secretary of the Protection Council, Customary Nikolai Patrushev.
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2024-07-26 01:37:31
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