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The story
It has come to light that 58 Indonesians applied for a Russian job listing in logistics offering a monthly salary of 470,000 yen (roughly $3,000). The applicants are believed to have actually been sent to the Ukrainian front line, and Indonesian authorities have detained the Russian-side recruiter. On 5ch, posters piled on with sarcastic comments about how the job listing was apparently nothing but a cover story for shipping people to the front, with many exchanges invoking vivid frontline imagery like drones and trenches. Some also pointed out that Indian and Nepali exchange students are said to have been sent to the front under similar circumstances, suggesting this isn’t an issue limited to one country.
Indonesia Detains Recruiters of Mercenaries for Russian Army
Indonesia Detains Recruiter of Mercenaries for the Russian Army
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Source: militarnyi.com / Original article here
What people said
Because they're going to die anyway.
Sounds like they probably aren't even officially on the military's books.
Wasn't it something like they die within 30 minutes of reaching the front?
Re: #22
Probably Russian spies who picked up Ukrainian citizenship.
Ukraine's army has a serious troop shortage too, so I wouldn't even be shocked if they're genuinely Ukrainian, lol.
There are tons of Russians helping Ukraine and Ukrainians helping Russia out there.
In the end, they're the same people.
A certain amount of 'loss' is bound to happen too, lol. (talking about the men like lost cargo)
Russian guy: "One rifle between two men, that's plenty."
Nope, wrong. It's a job where you personally serve as the thing that gets used up by suicide drones.
I did laugh at the fact that the Indian and Nepali exchange students got sent to the front line instead of to university, lol.
and got shipped off to a trench instead. The end.
Maybe the 'cooking job' literally means cooking inside the trench.
No chance. These days they're just drone fodder.
When leaving the trench, they send the mercenary out first to check whether a drone is lying in wait to target them.
Men are getting snatched off the street and sent straight to the front.
At this rate, won't all the men in Ukraine just disappear?
If I went to Ukraine right now, would even I be popular with the ladies?
Background and Key Points of This Topic
The Russian military is reported to have repeatedly used job listings in fields that look unrelated to combat — like logistics or cooking — to recruit foreign nationals to make up for troop shortages, only to actually assign them to frontline duty, and the 58 Indonesian applicants appear to be one such case. Commenters also brought up similar cases involving Indian and Nepali exchange students being sent to the front, suggesting the pattern isn’t confined to a single country. Opinion split between those who held the applicants responsible for their own choices and those who argued that, given how appealing a 470,000-yen monthly salary would be along with the economic pressures involved, it’s understandable that people would fall for it. There were also comments pointing to Ukraine’s own troop shortages, but it’s worth noting that mobilization issues on both sides are fundamentally separate matters, not directly connected to the Russian recruitment-and-detention case that is the source of this article.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (News Flash+) thread “Russia Recruits for a Logistics Job at ¥470,000/Month, 58 Indonesians Apply, Get Sent to the Ukrainian Front Line — Indonesia Detains Russian Military Recruiter.”
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