{"id":82398,"date":"2025-12-16T12:44:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=82398"},"modified":"2025-12-16T12:44:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:44:41","slug":"south-africa-in-talks-with-russia-over-men-tricked-into-fighting-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/12\/16\/south-africa-in-talks-with-russia-over-men-tricked-into-fighting-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa in talks with Russia over men &#8216;tricked&#8217; into fighting in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1Sr9jC.img?w=534&amp;h=427&amp;m=6&amp;x=313&amp;y=216&amp;s=335&amp;d=335\" alt=\"Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla has been accused of recruiting the men, saying they would be bodyguards for her father\u2019s uMkhonto weSizwe party or attending a training course. Photograph: Rajesh Jantilal\/AFP\/Getty Images\" \/><\/p>\n<p>South Africa\u2019s government is in talks with Russia to bring home 17 South African men fighting for Russia in Ukraine,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/south-africa-in-talks-with-russia-over-men-tricked-into-fighting-in-ukraine\/ar-AA1Src83?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=694151cf7bd04e748389ad36cc8a47e4&amp;ei=35\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>South Africa\u2019s government is in talks with Russia to bring home 17 South African men fighting for Russia in Ukraine, Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Africans-fighting-in-Russia.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82400,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82398\/revisions\/82400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}