Network of Trafficking in Human Beings: Russia recruits Cuba residents for war in Ukraine - the Foreign Ministry

According to the Cuban Foreign Ministry, law enforcement officers are trying to neutralize the network of smuggling of people who are driven from Russia. Cuba citizens try to involve in the armed forces to participate in military operations in Ukraine. Cuba authorities have revealed a network that recruits Cuba residents to the war in Ukraine. This was announced on the eve of September 4 in the Cuban Foreign Ministry, CNN reports.

"The Ministry of Internal Affairs has opened and works to neutralize the network from smuggling of people who are governed from Russia, trying to attract Cuba citizens who are in the Russian Federation or in Cuba, in the armed forces to participate in military operations in Ukraine," - reads in Ministry's statement. The department does not inform the details, but notes that some persons have already initiated criminal proceedings. "Cuba is not a side of conflict in the war in Ukraine.

The country is taking measures and will be strictly against those who are in any way involved in traffic for hiring or recruitment in any way to force Cuba citizens to raise weapons against one of the countries ", - said in the department. The Russian government did not comment on the statement of Cuban officials. Earlier, the official harbor spoke in support of Moscow - its ally of the Cold War, which resolved the war against Ukraine.

In his rare interview in May, Cuba Miguel Dias-Cuba, talking to Russian journalists with RT, said that Cuba condemns the "expansion of NATO to the borders of the Russian Federation"-one of the abstracts by which the Russian Federation tries to justify the invasion of Ukraine. Dias-Cancel also condemned sanctions against the Russian Federation and announced Russian "Projects on Cooperation" in Cuba.