'My salary can feed your family for 3 years' - Ghanaian in Russian army brags

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  • Josh 15 hours ago

    And your STUPIDITY will make you realize that your body will be blown up in pieces within minutes to make all your salary become as useless as yourself. Such an idiotic fool. He doesn't factor the risk involved in the salary ...
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  • Ruthan 15 hours ago

    Did it affect you and your family when suicide bombers killed Ghanaians who have enlisted into the British & American Armies in Iraq & Afghanistan? Get some life and find ways to improve yourself economically.

  • Dr Mumbi Seraki 15 hours ago

    Hello youth of Ghana..............you can take your own life with medicine.......For instance 15 paracetamol at once.....or combine medicine and akpeteshie or weedicide.

  • But remember soldier go soldier come 14 hours ago

    In war front, it's do and die,so don't bragging

  • THE IDIOT IN RUSSIA IS LYING 13 hours ago

    We know how much Russia pays the poor and desperate men it has lured into fighting in Ukraine. Some f them get killed trying to run away and live in kidnapped conditions.

  • Anoff 13 hours ago

    ... And those idiots are often used as baits on the most dangerous fronts. That foolish boy is only thinking of the money without thinking about the other side of life. A stupid boy like @Ruthan.

  • ST GHFUO: Kwame Nkrumah International Airport 13 hours ago

    Hell is sweet like honey hurry up and come

  • The Motherland 10 hours ago

    See the extraterrestrial alien aka MUMBI SERAKI. Humans are commenting here and he is also comming here to comment some. Akaii!

  • John A. 8 hours ago

    This guy is probably dead by now. The promise big salary knowing that you can not live to enjoy. These are the ones they put at the very front of combat with little training. I saw a Youtube video of an Indian lady whose husb ...
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  • Ruthan 13 hours ago

    @ Anoff
    I presume you're from Aburi Akwapim just as I'm. Don't base your knowledge on the Western press bcoz I know much about that country. Russia currently has a Military strength of 3.5 Million soldiers (active) with a n ...
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  • Osei 12 hours ago

    Oh so it's all about money? Well we all have our principles and priorities.

  • Nkeaaaa 11 hours ago

    Why are you not enlisted then?

  • Thomas Aboagye 9 hours ago

    You quoted nice figures authoritatively. Pl can you tell us the source of your information . In any case this fool thinks every Ghanaian will like to live the life of a mercenary because of money. The warped mentality based o ...
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  • Kwaku 7 hours ago

    @ Thomas Aboagye
    Who do you want to teach you something about Russia, when you've been brainwashed and blocked your mind from learning everything about that country. Paadumat Afrikanchie loodie.

  • Nana Yaw 5 hours ago

    Only a fool un-reasons like you. That guy at war front will die before his second meagre pay. If it was that good, those kidnapped nationals wouldn’t want to quit. POWs and captured foreign fighters tell of the hell they ...
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  • JULOR CAESAR 2 hours ago

    He can brag about his Russian mercenary salary all he wants, but the truth is that his chances of surviving at the war front past three months is slim. Russia is recruiting African warm bodies to be killed by the Ukrainian ar ...
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  • Kweku Tsin 12 hours ago

    Stupid African modafvcka bragging about YOUR LITTLE BLOOD MONEY from a dispicable job no Russian want. . May your silva perish you. You will be lucky if you make it back home in a body bag.

  • Kwaku 12 hours ago

    Are you aware we've Ghanaians & other Africans working as lecturers, medical Doctors, lawyers in Russia ? And you think the Russian govt pay them peanuts?Don't comment on issues you don't understand.In as much I will never re ...
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  • Kweku Tsin 9 hours ago

    @Kwaku..kwasiaba, toke b3l3, Odwan, tintinto, tsina ajebu, too m3333!!. Your ignorant and dumb-ass statement suggests that you had no knowledge of my background. Back to the subject. Is this kurasinii bugabuga misfit that mis ...
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  • Kwaku 7 hours ago

    @ Kweku Tsin
    You're a complete illiterate wasting your time on Internet go back to school and stop following politicians. O Tibia Galava nie rabotayet. Beeaard.

  • John A. 8 hours ago

    As of now, since they cannot get North Korea to supply them people at the at war-front they have to turn their attention to Africa. Why? We can easily fall for the trap. He is being used for propaganda in recruitment.

  • ASUNKE 5 hours ago

    Most Ghanaians are brained washed by western propaganda. If a Ghanaian join US and Britain army the family see it as a big achievement. Don't American and Britain (NATO) invade other countries? Many foreign recruits died in I ...
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  • Martin Kreisler 11 hours ago

    Other countries do the same with similarly 'poor and desperate' men.
    It is reported that there are such people on the Ukranian side too.

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari. 10 hours ago

    Just ignore his idiocy. He has sold his mind and conscience in fighting for Russia. How many Russians are fleeing from fighting in Ukraine?

  • Jesus gives eternal Life 12 hours ago

    Where is your lifestyle,choices and deeds leading you to today? Is it to God, our heavenly Father or away from him? Is it to heaven, our blissful eternal home or to hell, eternal condemnation and destruction. Take a quiet m ...
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  • Nkeaaaa 14 hours ago

    He might be better than you. Your sharp teeth will be your grave digger

  • Obroni 13 hours ago

    How can he be better when his brains have stopped working like yours, @Nkeaaaa

  • Kweku Tsin 12 hours ago

    A person who sacrifices his life for an unjust cause in exchage for peanuts is worst than Judas himself.

  • THINK DEEP 7 hours ago

    @ Kweku Tsin
    Ghanaian youth who have sat down and allowed NPP & NDC to mess up their life, without giving them good education & jobs to do are foolish & useless than pigs in the Bible. Russia & USA do not owe them a living ...
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  • TAKE OR PAY DEMON 12 hours ago

    Larry Madoho indeed. This guy is an Ewe. I said it the other time that the other guy who was captured by Ukraine and Okujato Ablakwa going to beg for his release is an Ewe that is why Ablakwa was feverishly begging for his re ...
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  • Yabi Yabi 8 hours ago

    Your argument show's ignorance; perhaps you believe people with money should be able to buy any and all things including human beings.

    People serve in the military forces in every nation and that's nothing new. But we are ...
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  • ST GHFUO: Kwame Nkrumah International Airport 13 hours ago

    Because of hunger, mouse went to suck Cats titties for breast milk

  • HE IS NEVER A FOOL - Ghanani 13 hours ago

    He is never a fool . He is telling you the truth And he.knows the risk involved in what he is doing. You want him to live in Ghana,be jobless and starve to death? So many of our soldiers wish they are fighting as mercensries ...
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  • ST GHFUO: Kwame Nkrumah International Airport 13 hours ago

    Where do I sign? I'm going to russian embassy right now I will sleep there till I speak to someone

  • Attakorah 13 hours ago

    You see how stupid you are? You are such a LAZY FOOL to be talking about starvation in Ghana when you can survive in so many ways other than carrying yourself to Putin to be used as a human war shield. You have been very busy ...
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  • Kwaku 12 hours ago

    @ Atakorah
    You're ignorant and a semi illiterate yet you want to impose your illiteracy on others. There are millions of African students ,who have completed their studies in that country living & working in there. How many ...
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  • Kweku Tsin 9 hours ago

    Stop your nonsense comparing top professions to being a sodier. Russia is not a preferred destination for Ghanaians. Only desperate Ghanaians go to Russia. Given the option even Russians will rather go to W. Europe, Canada or ...
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  • THINK DEEP 7 hours ago

    You lack intelligence yet you would never shut your beak.To tell you the truth, those Ghanaians joining the Russian Army are not professional soldiers they are like Vigilantes being used in the army for transport & logistics. ...
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  • THINK DEEP 7 hours ago

    @ Kweku Tsin
    Kweku Russian Govt is not forcing any Ghanaian youth unemployed to come and join their army.Russia has a professional army of 3.5 million solders standby that they are not using. They are giving out 175,000 Do ...
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  • TAKE OR PAY DEMON 12 hours ago

    Look at this canon fodder. If he doesn't take care, the Ukeainians will just eliminate him and Russians will just declare him missing in action and his family will lose all his benefits. By the way, why is Abkakwa not confron ...
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  • TWEAA DC 12 hours ago

    GO AND GET WOUNDED IN UKRAINE AND THEN CRY FOR ABLAKWA TO COME AND HELP YOU....IDIOTIC IDIOT...TWEAA.

  • Sowee 9 hours ago

    This is power drunk

  • John A. 8 hours ago

    This is propaganda, like using peanuts to trap the mouse.

  • Yaa Yaa: THE BIGGER THE QUIETER ( Y Y Network, Begoro, E/R) 8 hours ago

    Perspective matters. A paycheck can be life-changing in one place and average in another — and there’s nothing wrong with being proud of your progress.

    But there’s a difference between pride and performance.

    Becau ...
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  • Nana 15 hours ago

    Why are the Western press so concerned about citizens of poorer countries joining Russian Army?Both USA & UK have been enlisting citizens of poorer African countries for decades,why didn't they complain?We have been dealing w ...
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  • La Pleasure man 14 hours ago

    Which Western press are you refering to?

  • Dungeon Master 14 hours ago

    I believe the story is published in English rather than in Twi or Ewe, so it must be from the West.

    I suppose that's the man's logic

  • Kweku Tsin 8 hours ago

    The US and UK do not enlist people because they needed African idiots for the meat grinder. Most get a successful career without active combat.

  • ST GHFUO: Kwame Nkrumah International Airport 13 hours ago

    Kwasia, the same bitch bitch c BBC western press that told you that the same man who freed you from the SHACKLES in colonization, British ruling you n taking your resources. Has now turned into a kakai dictator. Me sef I want ...
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  • Nkeaaaa 14 hours ago

    The US and UK enlist people into their army but Russia is enlisting people and throwing onto the battle field with very little training. Many were lied to about their roles in the army. Is this the only article you've ever re ...
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  • A 12 hours ago

    Don't say things that you do not understand. The same CNN would have instigated African countries to take on Russia at the UN. Don't you know there is a law within UN that is against compulsory enlistment of other nationals ...
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  • Nkeaaaa 11 hours ago

    Does that stop them from being Ghanaian? Until this war, how many black Russians did you know?

  • John A. 8 hours ago

    Who told you that? To get a citizenship to be put at the war front. What has UN to do with this? People have the right to do what they want. The North Korean soldiers sent to Russian and were being blown away did not get any ...
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  • Former Dining Hall Prefect 13 hours ago

    Nana, the news is on Ghanaweb so why are you criticising the western press? Go and join the Russian army and you will understand the situation better.

  • Nana 13 hours ago

    " In a video shared by CNN Larry Madowo" Read the full story.Some of you have little brains. I would have been happy no Ghanaian got involved in those wars but worsening economies is pushing them.

  • Nkeaaaa 11 hours ago

    Worsening economy? Where is that? Some Ghanaians like you are too steeped in foolishness. Fo you know the number of homeless people in the US, UK, China and even Japan? Does that make their economy very wors

  • La Pleasure man 9 hours ago

    That CNN journalist just shared this video on X.. Every Tom, Dick and Harry can share a video.. If 1 CNN journalist shares a video you people talk about Western press.. hmmm.. I guess you are the one with small brains.. So wh ...
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  • Daniel Jagri 15 hours ago

    Money is the root of evil and death.

  • ST GHFUO: Kwame Nkrumah International Airport 13 hours ago

    The lack of money is the root of all evil

  • Kk 11 hours ago

    The love of money is the root of all evil

  • meet powerful indain ghananian astrology black magic healer 15 hours ago

    Look am under rasyandani temple … when you meditate great Amal hamzard he is angel of weath it takes 60 to meditate to meet that angel before u can be rich in Ghana or supper powerful only few can meditate Amal hamzard is n ...
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  • Asem Wura 15 hours ago

    The most lies military in the world

  • One day for master 14 hours ago

    Then bring more money home else a day Ukraine bullet may finished you ,your family can see money for the rest of their lives

  • Ks 14 hours ago

    They alway use a black journalist

  • FUTURE WESTERN TOGOLANDERS COUP PLOTTERS 14 hours ago

    Lets pray the Ukranians blow him up in pieces before he comes back and start creating problems as pRt of Western Togolander!

  • Grenade Stuck up his Ass Would Be Good News! 14 hours ago

    He is a walking human mince meat.

  • Mr Truth 14 hours ago

    Nana you are still blame European today’s black African leaders stealing more than l trillion dollars puting its in American and European banks. Who is to blame

  • Osei mensah bonsu 14 hours ago

    What about the EU citizens fighting for Ukraine? Is it because of hardships too? What's even wrong with they joining the Russian army?

  • Igwe 14 hours ago

    The guy is from Ashanti Region. They make noise like ocean. Kokoase.

  • Gbetia 14 hours ago

    Drone who cares?

  • Nkeaaaa 14 hours ago

    Why would he make such a video. How many people in the army have we ever in the history of social media seen talking about salary advantages while in active service? What happened to army discipline? Why are tnative Russian s ...
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  • Kennedy Agyepong 14 hours ago

    Both Russians and Ukrainians are dying in numbers. Pray that GOD protects u and come back home in full.

  • Donatus 14 hours ago

    Conscript

  • Piety 14 hours ago

    You family can receive your death news in the next 3mins.

  • Kwame Peter 14 hours ago

    Anybody with suicidal tendency can join him.

  • nana 14 hours ago

    the African is always a foolish entity, we started selling own as slaves. Now we are fighting wars that has nothing to do with us just for money. Sometimes i ask myself are blacks really the first humans created?

  • ST GHFUO: Kwame Nkrumah International Airport 13 hours ago

    Stupidity started with you

  • nana 7 hours ago

    And your father

  • Clynns 13 hours ago

    And you can die like a fowl any day.

  • Baz 13 hours ago

    If u look at him carefully, u will see a fool. Money,money,money and a foolish Russian guy came and slept with our girls leaving them with nothing but HIV, u will die soon u fool

  • Kwaw Esiako 13 hours ago

    Leave this boy alone. Let's be patient to hear what he will say then.

  • NORMAL MERCENARY EARNING 13 hours ago

    This guy must be very reckless and dangerous for money. The Russian-Ukraine war front line is described as "meat Grinder".
    Motivation for money don't make a very good soldier than patriotism. Enjoy your chance!!!

  • KAD 13 hours ago

    He is a decedent under going training, he will come back as gorilla fighter to scatter us (poo pooo) Ghana army should be alert for such decedents

  • I thnk joining Russians Friends should be indivdual choices. 13 hours ago

    I think joining the Russians should be Indivdual , I think ,Our Authorities Must Help If Our Youths Decides To Seeks, Enlistings Employments ,Historically Russians Are True Committed Unflinge Friend Of African People .Struggl ...
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  • Sojourner Truth 12 hours ago

    GYIMIFUE!! 3NY3 SIKA BIA NA YEDI. When you start having serious nightmares about the atrocities, the commission of which you are a part of you'll understand.

  • LH 12 hours ago

    Gymii for fighting for a country like Russia. Murderers country. This guy should not be allowed to enter Ghana any longer. He will betray Ghana

  • A 7 hours ago

    U are an Animal to be born in a Shithole country like Ghana. Russia did not colonised any African country, but they have trained more Ghanaians than UK & USA. Russia is richer than Every single African country if you care to ...
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  • Ogo 4 hours ago

    You are an animal like your president putin the stupid idiot. If Russia is a country, why are they struggling. Stupid idiot

  • Anita 12 hours ago

    The Question is, Is All die be die not true again? Who said all die be die in Ghana? Akufo Monkey Addo said that ALLLL DIE BE DIEEEEE

  • Yaa Yaa 12 hours ago

    Whe. I hear my generation group talk about money as if it's more importance than life I shudder.

    It tells e how some of us has a low level our intellectual capacity has fallen to.

    In a serious country it's national or c ...
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  • Jon J 12 hours ago

    This guy shudnt be blamed. He probably has no property here n doesnt kno how to make it here. He has nothin to lose except his life n since hes gonna die one day anyway its better takin advantage of this opportunity. D.O.D

  • A 12 hours ago

    The "aimless and poor" guy you're talking about is no more a Ghanaian, he has taken on Russian citizenship for whatever monetary benefits. His family can also get their share. Leave him alone.

  • JA 12 hours ago

    What's the point of bragging about money you are earning fighting in a war? Russia is using them as cannon fodder as the call them. Untrained Africans hastely sent to the war front to be killed. That's how desperate these peo ...
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  • Jon J 12 hours ago

    Do Or Die

  • Onipa nua 12 hours ago

    Is it necessary to say a thing like this?
    Wise up

  • Charles 12 hours ago

    Meanwhile, your future is not guaranteed. Kwasia

  • Dondon 10 hours ago

    Is your future guaranteed? None of us on this earth future is guaranteed

  • Osei 12 hours ago

    Yes contract soldier who doesn't have sense sees only the pay yoo we hear you.

  • Martin Kreisler 11 hours ago

    This is old news, first put-out weeks ago.

  • Kwame Angel 11 hours ago

    Stupid idiot

  • Senseless Nonsense 11 hours ago

    Don't mind him. Just take a look at this turn out. And his beret. Does it even appeal to inspire anyone at all? To enroll into this archaic garbage mindset of Putin? Senseless Nonsense

  • Musa 11 hours ago

    Have all the money and die, u have no brains

  • Name 7 hours ago

    Nobody will take their money along, when they die.
    And that stops people to work and get money.

  • Brigadier Sabari v.2 11 hours ago

    When this idiot dies by the bullets of the Ukrainians, let know fucked up family member request for government support to bring his mother fucking corpse to ghana

  • Pogas 10 hours ago

    Yeah, simple and short !!

  • Thief of Staff - Akosua Frema 11 hours ago

    Is money everything? Ugly, useless, senseless, shameless, gormless, lawless, stupid, foolish, ignorant and primitive fool.

  • Teddy Moore 11 hours ago

    Then come and invest for your motherland.
    When you died, do you want your body to brought back to ghana

  • Teddy Moore 11 hours ago

    Please think about humanity and where you were brought up to. Money is just you're alive to show off but you can't take it to the grave. Stop showing off!!!! Concert

  • Louis 11 hours ago

    Ukraine says its an easy job fighting and that is why people choose that path. Eih, that surely must have come from the lips of an idiot. The youth in Ukraine are traversing very hard terrain to escape enlistment into the Ukr ...
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  • JA 10 hours ago

    @Louis, your analysis are wrong. Russia as you are trying to over-hyped have an army that are not the best in the world but actually weak and corrupt. Putin thought they were going to overrun Ukraine is a few weeks of war an ...
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  • Kwaku Tee 8 hours ago

    @ JA
    You're an illiterate spewing out rubbish. If Russia has a weak Army as you say, why are Europeans nations so worried for disagreement within NATO? EU & UK Parliament have themselves admitted they can't fight Russia alo ...
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  • JA 7 hours ago

    Look at this rather illiterate Kwaku Tee, didn't you understand my contribution? I said Russia has nuclear weapons that can wipe out Ukraine but can't use it due to the serious consequences. Their normal army can't do all, ...
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  • Dude 11 hours ago

    Only Ghanaian will say this, people recruited from other countries like Syria, Iran and Iraq etc are crying everyday. The so called promised salary is a mirage, there are Ghanaians who have served like this idiot, some are b ...
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  • AmanorUSA 10 hours ago

    Senior slave in deed. I did not join the US army just for the fact that l will have to be sent to other countries countries. Money is not everything.

  • Citizen8 10 hours ago

    Why this bragging? Most likely he's Kennedy Agyapong's brother.

  • Po 10 hours ago

    In fact the government should so something about salaries. All these guys abroad brag about is their salaries. Apart from that nothing better

  • Afram 10 hours ago

    S I C K....??

  • Oklemekuku 10 hours ago

    Dolt

  • Kwame 10 hours ago

    All die be die. Eny3 saaa?

  • Ben 10 hours ago

    Well, I will say finish your contract and come home safely and enjoy your money and refrain from such insults no matter how people criticize you.

  • DEEVINITY 9 hours ago

    People will go where the money is....regardless. It's just the way of the beast. Nothing to do with Russia per se.

  • Tahu 9 hours ago

    Who are the ghanaian parents who gave birth to this stupid foolish guy. Foolish guy

  • Cutting Brug 9 hours ago

    You will be dead soon, you are being stupid. Your dead body cannot be retrieved back home, wo de3 gu so gyimi saaaa. Brag and you will see one day there.

  • Weed 9 hours ago

    Soon you will be a demolishing man.

  • Comrade Nguyen Van Theo 9 hours ago

    That's not russian army uniform. Period

  • Kk 9 hours ago

    Don’t feed to this nonsense. I don’t know what part of Ghana he is from.
    This kind of stupidity must to not show to the general public eye.
    Don’t feed in to it.

  • Kwaseato 9 hours ago

    When a bullet goes through your head, you can take that money with you

  • Liquid diamond 8 hours ago

    . FOOLISH

  • Agyapong nie…………the mortgagor 8 hours ago

    Folks this is a propaganda campaign to lure uninformed people into a suicide mission. He may have been forced to make the video. Trust me there are more physically fit Russians than the people he is trying to convince

  • Lezy 8 hours ago

    Wasted sperm

  • Samwise 7 hours ago

    AI stupidness

  • Nkontompo 6 hours ago

    We hear senior

  • Nana 6 hours ago

    Stupid fool.....you don't know they are using you to go and die in Ukraine? Gyimii saaaa....you don't think before you speak. The question you should ask yourself is this......Why is Russia all of a sudden, recruiting African ...
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  • Bitter truth 6 hours ago

    An Animal who is willing to die for Russians who don’t even regard him as a human beings..Russians currently has shifted from using their own citizens to now using animals in human form mostly African countries to fight the ...
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  • Kojo 5 hours ago

    fighting for evil Putin wow

  • You and I were there 5 hours ago

    Canon fodder.

  • Bk man 5 hours ago

    You fool can you keep quiet who cares about what you earn. One day your head will be scattered. Bragging about! You are just an idiot from third world country.

  • JULOR CAESAR 2 hours ago

    But for how long, given that you're just another easy target for Ukrainian snipers? Stop fooling yourself, for your fellow African mercenaries are falling faster than wingless flies at the hands of Ukrainian fighters. The fol ...
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