A report monitored in Reuters indicated that more than 50 Ghanaians have been killed in the Ukraine war after being “lured into battle”,

According to Ghana’s foreign minister, the unsuspecting Ghanaians met their untimely deaths after a visit to Kyiv in which officials raised the issue of recruitment of Africans.

Reports of African men being attracted to Russia by promises of jobs and ending up on Ukraine’s front lines have become more frequent in recent months, creating tensions between Moscow and some of the countries involved.

In another development, Russian authorities have denied illegally recruiting African citizens to fight in Ukraine.

“We were informed that 272 Ghanaians are believed to have been lured into battle since 2022 for which an estimated 55 have been killed and 2 captured as prisoners of war,” Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa said in a post on X late this week.

Meanwhile, at a media briefing earlier, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, standing alongside Ablakwa, said more than 1,780 Africans from 36 different countries are “fighting in the Russian army”.