Russia’s Shadow Army, Wagner, Now Accused of Kidnapping Students and Sending Them to Ukraine

A 23-year-old student from Kazakhstan has been “kidnapped” by Russia’s notorious Wagner Group and forced to join the war against Ukraine, his family is alleging.

Margulan Bekenov’s mother, Almira, says she’s already appealed to military prosecutors, police in both Russia and Kazakhstan, and the presidents of both countries—but to no avail, according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

She says her son, a student at a university in Tomsk, mysteriously wound up in a region close to the border with Ukraine last month.

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