"Lucky": More than 20 mercenaries from Sri Lanka were able to escape from the Russian army-AFP

Russia has promised mercenaries salary that is 13 times higher than income in Sri Lanka. However, those who returned home believe that they are very lucky. At least 22 Sri Lankans who joined the Russian troops were able to desert and return home. About it reports France Press. "They were deceived," the Nalin Ministry of Defense Ministry said to the agency. The 37-year-old hotel driver Anil Madusanka, who is now recovering in his home after seven horrible weeks in Russia, is one of them.

According to him, he believed that he was changing the driving of tourists to work a driver in Russia, but instead he was handed a machine gun and sent to the front to resist the Ukrainian forces. He was wounded by Schrapnell, which broke both his feet. From the hospital, he fled to the Sri Lanka Embassy in Moscow, which organized its repatriation. "I was lucky that I was running away," he said.

The material emphasizes that when the Sri Lanka economy fell in 2022, people began to look for work abroad. Advertising advertisements posted on social networks by retired servicemen have promised a monthly salary of more than $ 2100, which is 13 times higher than the average income in Sri Lanka. There were also promised areas of land in Russia, where foreign mercenaries with families could settle. And, for "employment" had to pay. Some families gave $ 10,000 to employment agent to get a job.

To raise the required amount, in anticipation of rapid wealth, they sold everything, including homes. One of the women said that economic difficulties forced her husband, who served in the command of the commandos for 22 years, to go to Russia, which is at a distance of more than 6000 kilometers. He retired, forged by accidental earnings, but it was not enough.

The woman did not receive news from him from May 1, a month after he arrived in Moscow, in his opinion, in his opinion, the "neoian" position. "His last call was asking him to return him home and save his life," she said. The Sri Lanka Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Moscow agreed not to recruit the Sri Lankans in its army.

The Russian Ambassador Levan Jagarian stated that the Sri Lankans were issued a "much" cart, but insisted that they did not inform the embassy, ​​why they wanted to go to Moscow. Recall that in April, the Sri Lanka authorities suggested that their citizens write denunciations on the Russians to legally deport them from the country. To this end, they even opened a specialized "hot" line. We also wrote that at the end of May, Ukrainian defenders captured the Sri Lanka citizen.