For months, hundreds of Cubans have quietly left the island to fight for Russia in its war in Ukraine, chasing promises of money and Russian citizenship from shadowy online recruiters, family ...

In a statement, Cuba's Foreign Ministry called the alleged plan a human trafficking ring. It said Cubans, both in Russia and on the island, had been recruited to fight in Russia's war against Ukraine.

Kim Jong Un to meet with Putin 01:46. Havana — Cuba has identified an alleged human trafficking ring aimed at recruiting its citizens to fight in Russia's war in Ukraine, the foreign ministry ...

Cuba’s military involvement with Russia in Ukraine operates at several levels. Cubans found on a windswept Russian army shooting range seem highly motivated fighting men.

But "hours later", Cuba's foreign ministry said Havana's "unequivocal" position was to oppose any involvement. "Cuba is not part of the war in Ukraine," it said in a statement.

Cuba has declined to vote on U.N. resolutions condemning the invasion of Ukraine. In a visit to Moscow in May, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel assured Russia of "Cuba's unconditional support." ...

Cuba is “not part of the war in Ukraine,” the foreign ministry’s statement said. Cuba has been a close ally of Russia since the Cuban Revolution in 1959.

FADEL: Now, Cuba has made it very publicly clear, at least tried to say, that they have nothing to do with the war in Ukraine, that they had nothing to do with these recruits of Cubans to go fight ...

Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has promoted the narrative, broadcast worldwide, that a clandestine network trafficked hundreds of Cuban men sent to fight in Ukraine.

For months, hundreds of Cubans have quietly left the island to fight for Russia in its war in Ukraine, chasing promises of money and Russian citizenship from shadowy online recruiters, family ...