Four Nigerians fighting for Russia killed in drone attacks by Ukraine

Four Nigerians fighting for Russia killed in drone attacks by Ukraine

As a minimum 4 Nigerians recruited to fight for Russia in Ukraine have been okay!lled on the battlefield in Ukraine, according to sources familiar with the matter.

DailyNigerian exclusively accumulated that the slain Nigerians — Adam Anas, Akinlawon Tunde Quyuum, Abugu Stanley Onyeka and Balogun Ridwan Adisa, have been recruited on the fake pretense of “security activity” but ended up being conscripted and deployed to the fighting the front after 3 weeks of schooling.

while the quartet of Messrs Anas, Quyuum Onyeka in addition to Abubakar Adamu (the only survivor) traveled together in November 2025, Mr Adisa used to be recruited earlier inside the yr.

assets said the Nigerian warring parties d!ed at the frontline on one-of-a-kind dates between December 2025 and January 2026.

Investigations by way of this newspaper shows that the Russian military did now not contact the families of the fallen opponents, simply as they warned different African mercenaries towards reporting the incidents to the households of the deceased fighters.

It used to be collected that the information of d3ath of the 4 Nigerians was first broken in a secret WhatsApp organization opened by means of the African mercenaries.

“We heard about the loss of life of our brother thru considered one of his colleagues. His image was once posted in a mystery WhatsApp group. Our own family was once in no way contacted by means of the Russian government,” stated a relative of a deceased conscript, Adam Anas.

The travails Mr Adam and his co-vacationers began after an informal acceptance of the “safety task offer” with the aid of a Nigerian agent identified as Emiola Muhammad

The Russian Embassy in Abuja, in an apparent connivance with the Nigerian recruiting agent, granted the Nigerian mercenaries a single-entry traveller visa except biometric seize and fulfilling different utility necessities.

although the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Nigeria has drawn the eye of candidates that submission ought to be made in man or woman and that “reliance on a third birthday party may additionally incur a visa denial”, but the conscripts have been granted visas barring submission in character.

The mercenaries had been promised a tempting month-to-month salary of 2 hundred,000 ruble (approximately 3.6million naira) as well as allowances and different perks.

The e-book gathered that on arrival on the Sheremetyevo global Airport, Moscow, the 4 Nigerian task-seekers were right now diverted far from border manage queues to any other passage, exempting them from immigration clearance

In a letter acquired via the e-book, the Russian military subtly directed the airport authorities to offer them entry clearance for settlement enlistment into the Russian navy.

within the letter, which was once addressed to the chief of the Border manage Detachment of the Federal safety carrier of Russia at Sheremetyevo global Airport, Colonel L. Yu. Yashin, the Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation stated Nigerian foreign citizens are scheduled to arrive at the recruitment center for contract army provider (second category) in Yaroslavl (31 Dobrynina street, Yaroslavl) this November to sign a navy carrier settlement.

straight away after arrival, the Nigerian task-seekers had been therefore requested to sign the agreement written in Russian barring English translation.

a part of the agreement is translated as follows, “for the duration of the period of navy carrier below the agreement, [you are required] to conscientiously perform all popular, reputable, and special obligations of navy personnel set up by means of legislative and other regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation.

“To be trustworthy to the military Oath (duty), to selflessly serve the humans of the Russian Federation, to courageously and elegantly defend the Russian Federation (paragraph three of Article sixteen of the inner carrier rules of the armed forces of the Russian Federation, accredited with the aid of Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of November 10, 2007 No. 1495 (hereinafter referred to as the inner carrier regulations).”

After signing the settlement without translation, they have been taken to a military facility wherein they underwent schooling for 3 weeks.

“Our passports and telephones have been seized without delay, however some of us controlled to sneak in a telephone. After spending hours at a camp in Moscow, they waited till night time earlier than riding us on a 5-hour street journey to the navy camp,” said one of the African conscripts.

A voice be aware sent by means of one of the slain Nigerian warring parties, Anas Adam, to his pal paints the precarious state of affairs he found himself in.

“Please pray for us, we’re inside the middle of a forest. it’s miles a 2-week adventure taking walks, and the road is risky as there are so many drones. up to now we’ve got trekked for 4 days. we are one camp far from our destination. because of the presence of drones, they’re sending us one after another,” Mr Anas, who left in the back of a wife and three younger children, said in his remaining voice note to his friend.

when contacted, the Russian Embassy didn’t respond to our correspondent’s enquiry on the matter.

however, the spokesman for the Nigerian Ministry of overseas Affairs, Kimiebi Ebienfa, said the ministry was once blind to the incident

“it’s miles a unhappy development and pretty unlucky but the Ministry isn’t conscious”, Mr Ebienfa stated.

past due ultimate 12 months, Ukraine claimed that greater than 1,four hundred humans from 36 African countries are conflict for Russia.

In November 2025, Ukrainian foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said the contracts Africans are pressured to signal are equal to signing a d3ath sentence.

consistent with a December file with the aid of the French Institute of global members of the family, Russian government confiscate African recruits’ passports and function cannon fodder with a purpose to make incursion into dangerous frontiers

A Nigerian who was recruited to combat for Russia, Abubakar Adamu, is looking at the federal authorities to store his soul and repatriate him to Nigeria.

Writing via his attorney, Mr Adamu stated he was lured to accept a protection defend activity in Russia but upon arrival, he used to be asked to go to hostilities.

“we’re solicitors, our offerings having been retained by way of Abubakar Adamu (herenafter referred to as “our customer”) and on whose association coaching we write you this be aware.

“Our short found out that our purchaser, a Nigeria Citizen, is nowadays detained within the Russian Federation (11740 navy division Unit) underneath the guise of military enlistment.

“Our quick similarly discovered that our purchaser used to be recruited beneath the false pretense of serving as a civilian security shield. however, upon arrival in Russia, his journey files were confiscated, and he used to be coerced into signing files written exclusively in the Russian language besides the assistance of an interpreter. these files, which he later located were enlistment papers into the Russian military, were signed beneath a fundamental mistake as to their person and content,” stated the letter.

The letter further entreated the Russian army to go back his confiscated passports and facilitate his secure go back to Nigeria.

“We hereby formally notify the Embassy of the following criminal positions:

Doctrine of Non Est Factum: The purported enlistment agreement is void. there was a total absence of thinking and pen as our patron did no longer apprehend the nature of the report he was once signing due to the language barrier and absence of translation offerings.
vital Misrepresentation: The settlement is repudiated ab initio by virtue of the non-disclosure of its genuine nature and the deceitful tactic used to lure him into military carrier.
Violation of global regulation: keeping a foreign country wide towards their will and forcing them into conflict provider violate essential Human rights and worldwide protocols concerning the treatment of foreign civilians.
In light of the above, we demand that the Russian government immediately:

As a minimum 4 Nigerians recruited to fight for Russia in Ukraine have been okay!lled on the battlefield in Ukraine, according to sources familiar with the matter.

DailyNigerian exclusively accumulated that the slain Nigerians — Adam Anas, Akinlawon Tunde Quyuum, Abugu Stanley Onyeka and Balogun Ridwan Adisa, have been recruited on the fake pretense of “security activity” but ended up being conscripted and deployed to the fighting the front after 3 weeks of schooling.

while the quartet of Messrs Anas, Quyuum Onyeka in addition to Abubakar Adamu (the only survivor) traveled together in November 2025, Mr Adisa used to be recruited earlier inside the yr.

assets said the Nigerian warring parties d!ed at the frontline on one-of-a-kind dates between December 2025 and January 2026.

Investigations by way of this newspaper shows that the Russian military did now not contact the families of the fallen opponents, simply as they warned different African mercenaries towards reporting the incidents to the households of the deceased fighters.

It used to be collected that the information of d3ath of the 4 Nigerians was first broken in a secret WhatsApp organization opened by means of the African mercenaries.

“We heard about the loss of life of our brother thru considered one of his colleagues. His image was once posted in a mystery WhatsApp group. Our own family was once in no way contacted by means of the Russian government,” stated a relative of a deceased conscript, Adam Anas.

The travails Mr Adam and his co-vacationers began after an informal acceptance of the “safety task offer” with the aid of a Nigerian agent identified as Emiola Muhammad

The Russian Embassy in Abuja, in an apparent connivance with the Nigerian recruiting agent, granted the Nigerian mercenaries a single-entry traveller visa except biometric seize and fulfilling different utility necessities.

although the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Nigeria has drawn the eye of candidates that submission ought to be made in man or woman and that “reliance on a third birthday party may additionally incur a visa denial”, but the conscripts have been granted visas barring submission in character.

The mercenaries had been promised a tempting month-to-month salary of 2 hundred,000 ruble (approximately 3.6million naira) as well as allowances and different perks.

The e-book gathered that on arrival on the Sheremetyevo global Airport, Moscow, the 4 Nigerian task-seekers were right now diverted far from border manage queues to any other passage, exempting them from immigration clearance

In a letter acquired via the e-book, the Russian military subtly directed the airport authorities to offer them entry clearance for settlement enlistment into the Russian navy.

within the letter, which was once addressed to the chief of the Border manage Detachment of the Federal safety carrier of Russia at Sheremetyevo global Airport, Colonel L. Yu. Yashin, the Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation stated Nigerian foreign citizens are scheduled to arrive at the recruitment center for contract army provider (second category) in Yaroslavl (31 Dobrynina street, Yaroslavl) this November to sign a navy carrier settlement.

straight away after arrival, the Nigerian task-seekers had been therefore requested to sign the agreement written in Russian barring English translation.

a part of the agreement is translated as follows, “for the duration of the period of navy carrier below the agreement, [you are required] to conscientiously perform all popular, reputable, and special obligations of navy personnel set up by means of legislative and other regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation.

“To be trustworthy to the military Oath (duty), to selflessly serve the humans of the Russian Federation, to courageously and elegantly defend the Russian Federation (paragraph three of Article sixteen of the inner carrier rules of the armed forces of the Russian Federation, accredited with the aid of Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of November 10, 2007 No. 1495 (hereinafter referred to as the inner carrier regulations).”

After signing the settlement without translation, they have been taken to a military facility wherein they underwent schooling for 3 weeks.

“Our passports and telephones have been seized without delay, however some of us controlled to sneak in a telephone. After spending hours at a camp in Moscow, they waited till night time earlier than riding us on a 5-hour street journey to the navy camp,” said one of the African conscripts.

A voice be aware sent by means of one of the slain Nigerian warring parties, Anas Adam, to his pal paints the precarious state of affairs he found himself in.

“Please pray for us, we’re inside the middle of a forest. it’s miles a 2-week adventure taking walks, and the road is risky as there are so many drones. up to now we’ve got trekked for 4 days. we are one camp far from our destination. because of the presence of drones, they’re sending us one after another,” Mr Anas, who left in the back of a wife and three younger children, said in his remaining voice note to his friend.

when contacted, the Russian Embassy didn’t respond to our correspondent’s enquiry on the matter.

however, the spokesman for the Nigerian Ministry of overseas Affairs, Kimiebi Ebienfa, said the ministry was once blind to the incident

“it’s miles a unhappy development and pretty unlucky but the Ministry isn’t conscious”, Mr Ebienfa stated.

past due ultimate 12 months, Ukraine claimed that greater than 1,four hundred humans from 36 African countries are conflict for Russia.

In November 2025, Ukrainian foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said the contracts Africans are pressured to signal are equal to signing a d3ath sentence.

consistent with a December file with the aid of the French Institute of global members of the family, Russian government confiscate African recruits’ passports and function cannon fodder with a purpose to make incursion into dangerous frontiers

A Nigerian who was recruited to combat for Russia, Abubakar Adamu, is looking at the federal authorities to store his soul and repatriate him to Nigeria.

Writing via his attorney, Mr Adamu stated he was lured to accept a protection defend activity in Russia but upon arrival, he used to be asked to go to hostilities.

“we’re solicitors, our offerings having been retained by way of Abubakar Adamu (herenafter referred to as “our customer”) and on whose association coaching we write you this be aware.

“Our short found out that our purchaser, a Nigeria Citizen, is nowadays detained within the Russian Federation (11740 navy division Unit) underneath the guise of military enlistment.

“Our quick similarly discovered that our purchaser used to be recruited beneath the false pretense of serving as a civilian security shield. however, upon arrival in Russia, his journey files were confiscated, and he used to be coerced into signing files written exclusively in the Russian language besides the assistance of an interpreter. these files, which he later located were enlistment papers into the Russian military, were signed beneath a fundamental mistake as to their person and content,” stated the letter.

The letter further entreated the Russian army to go back his confiscated passports and facilitate his secure go back to Nigeria.

“We hereby formally notify the Embassy of the following criminal positions:

Doctrine of Non Est Factum: The purported enlistment agreement is void. there was a total absence of thinking and pen as our patron did no longer apprehend the nature of the report he was once signing due to the language barrier and absence of translation offerings.
vital Misrepresentation: The settlement is repudiated ab initio by virtue of the non-disclosure of its genuine nature and the deceitful tactic used to lure him into military carrier.
Violation of global regulation: keeping a foreign country wide towards their will and forcing them into conflict provider violate essential Human rights and worldwide protocols concerning the treatment of foreign civilians.
In light of the above, we demand that the Russian government immediately:

stop any navy deployment of Abubakar Adamu;
return his confiscated passport and tour archives; and
Facilitate his safe and immediate repatriation to Nigeria.
“We sit up for your set off cooperation.”