'I'd be a king in Somalia with this money:' Foreign POWs on being lured to fight for Russia in Ukraine

Adil Muhammad, a Somali, sits in a Russian military uniform among other prisoners of war (POWs) in a press conference in Ukraine’s capital in mid-March. The former infantryman was captured in combat near Marinka in Donetsk Oblast while fighting with the Russian army in Ukraine in early 2024, five months after he came to Moscow on a tourist visa to work and only four days after being deployed to the front lines. Three months into working for $140 a month at a clothing factory, Muhammad saw a billboard with a Russian army advertisement.

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