World 8 November 2026, 22:28

CLICK BAIT: ‘We were fodder’ — how a Botswana architect was duped into fighting for Russia

This is the story of a Botswana architect who ended up on the front line of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, where he was taken prisoner. He told his story from a Ukrainian prisoner-of-war facility outside Lviv.

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