Daniel Angel Masie Nchama had no idea what he was getting into when Russian recruiters sent the young man from Equatorial Guinea into battle in war-ravaged Ukraine.
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“I realised we were at the front when a missile struck us,” he told AFP.
Now back home at his parents’ modest house in the capital Malabo, the 22-year-old former IT student recalled the freezing cold, hunger, fear and finally, flight — achieved with the help of his country’s diplomatic efforts.
Dreaming of finding a life abroad, he was convinced by a Cameroonian named “Fabrice” to head to Russia.
