{"id":84704,"date":"2026-02-09T16:12:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=84704"},"modified":"2026-02-09T16:12:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:12:03","slug":"lies-horror-trauma-kenyans-recount-forced-russian-recruitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/09\/lies-horror-trauma-kenyans-recount-forced-russian-recruitment\/","title":{"rendered":"Lies, horror, trauma: Kenyans recount forced Russian recruitment"},"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 loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/_01xZoMeQXU91Bb3YX4kug--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTE1MzY7aD0xMDI0O2NmPXdlYnA-\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/afp.com\/ef578c4355ea392c4987e9f62693e124\" width=\"541\" height=\"361\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The scars on Victor&#8217;s forearm remind him constantly of the day a Ukrainian drone attacked him after he was forcibly conscripted, like hundreds of young Kenyans, into the Russian army.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/lies-horror-trauma-kenyans-recount-063309975.html\"> 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>The scars on Victor&#8217;s forearm remind him constantly of the day a Ukrainian drone attacked him after he was forcibly conscripted, like&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84704","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\/09\/Kenya-gang-trafficking-to-Russia.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84704","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=84704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84705,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84704\/revisions\/84705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}