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Today we already have a figure of nearly 46,000 foreigners who have signed contracts with the Russian Ministry of Defense, from 151 countries around the world.
Unverified — a Ukrainian official’s count of enemy recruitment, up from 28,000 at the previous count; he put this year’s contracts at 16,168 against a plan of 18,500. Russia publishes no figures for foreign recruits and no independent count exists to check it.