The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs has made a statement accusing Russia of operating a human trafficking network that coerced Cuban citizens into fighting in Ukraine on the side of Russia.
The Ministry of the Interior has detected and it is working to neutralize and dismantle a human trafficking network that operates from Russia in order to incorporate Cuban citizens living there and even some living in Cuba, into the military forces that participate in military operations in Ukraine. Attempts of this nature have been neutralized and criminal proceedings have been initiated against those involved in these activities.
The ministry emphasizes that "Cuba’s enemies are promoting distorted information that seeks to tarnish the country’s image and present it as an accomplice to these actactions that we firmly reject"
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs statement underscores that "Cuba is not part of the war in Ukraine" and will take decisive action against those involved in any form of human trafficking for the purpose of recruitment, enabling Cuban citizens to take up arms against any country.
Cuba has a firm and clear historical position against mercenarism, and it plays an active role in the United Nations in rejection of the aforementioned practice, being the author of several of the initiatives approved in that forum.
