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Russia recruiting US-trained Afghan commandos, vets say
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MOSCOW, 01 November 2022, (TON): Three former Afghan generals told media “Afghan special forces soldiers who fought alongside American troops and then fled to Iran after the chaotic US withdrawal last year are now being recruited by the Russian military to fight in Ukraine.”
They said “the Russians want to attract thousands of the former elite Afghan commandos into a foreign legion with offers of steady $1,500-a-month payments and promises of safe havens for themselves and their families so they can avoid deportation home to what many assume would be death at the hands of the Taliban.”
One of the generals, Abdul Raof Arghandiwal said “they don’t want to go fight but they have no choice.”
He added that the dozen or so commandos in Iran with whom he has texted fear deportation most.
“They ask me, ‘Give me a solution. What should we do? If we go back to Afghanistan, the Taliban will kill us.’”
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