大卫·赫尔宾、安东尼·斯瓜津和沃洛迪米尔·韦尔比亚尼报道：非洲国家呼吁乌克兰将其在战俘营中的本国公民遣返，因为他们被抓到为俄罗斯作战。
African nations are calling for Ukrainians to return citizens in its prisoner of war camps after they were caught fighting for Russia.
肯尼亚政府正与有关方面谈判，争取让五名囚犯返回，外交部长穆萨利亚·穆达瓦迪周四在内罗毕向议员们表示，并补充说总统威廉·鲁托已就此事致电乌克兰领导人弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基。博茨瓦纳外交部此前告诉彭博社，正努力让其一名公民从乌克兰营地遣返。
Kenya’s government is in talks to have five prisoners returned, Foreign Secretary Musalia Mudavadi told lawmakers in Nairobi on Thursday, adding that President William Ruto has called Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy on the matter. Botswana’s Foreign Ministry earlier told Bloomberg it is seeking to have one of its citizens sent home from a Ukrainian camp.
非洲国家表示，一些本国公民被欺骗前往俄罗斯，随后被迫服兵役。政府称，这些战斗人员原本被告知将从事民用工作——如司机、保安或厨师等。
African nations have said that some of their citizens have been duped into traveling to Russia and then forced into military service. The combatants were told they would be employed in civilian jobs — such as drivers, security guards or cooks — governments have said.
穆达瓦迪说，肯尼亚希望将这些人定性为“国际人口贩运受害者”，而不是战俘。他们“报告称是被以虚假的就业承诺招募的”。
Kenya wants the men designated as “victims of international human trafficking” rather than prisoners of war, Mudavadi said. They “report having been recruited under false promises of employment,” he said.
津巴布韦政府在周四的一份声明中，对跨境欺骗性招募行为表示关切。声明称：“不幸的是，一些新兵被部署到东道国的前线作战，却没有任何事先的军事训练”，声明未提及俄罗斯或乌克兰的名称。
Zimbabwe’s government, in a statement on Thursday, expressed concern about deceptive cross-border recruitment practices. “Tragically, some recruits have been deployed to active battlefronts in host nations without any prior military training,” it said, without mentioning Russia or Ukraine by name.
根据乌克兰政府网站的数据，俄罗斯已从135个国家招募了超过28,000名外国公民为其作战，其中超过5,000人已阵亡。乌克兰军队已俘获来自51个国家的战斗人员。彭博社看到的文件显示，乌克兰至少关押了213名外国公民（不包括俄罗斯人和朝鲜人）作为战俘，其中有37名是非洲人。
According to a Ukrainian government website, Russia has recruited more than 28,000 foreign nationals to fight for it from 135 countries and of those over 5,000 have been killed. Fighters from 51 nations have been captured by Ukrainian forces, the government said. Ukraine is holding at least 213 foreign nationals, excluding Russians and North Koreans, as prisoners of war, according to documentation seen by Bloomberg. Of those, 37 are Africans.
自2022年2月总统弗拉基米尔·普京对乌克兰发动全面入侵以来，超过四年半的冲突已耗尽了俄罗斯的资源。为避免再次在国内推行不得人心的军事动员，莫斯科一直在扩大寻找新兵的范围。
More than four-and-a-half years of conflict have drained Russian resources since President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Moscow has been widening its search for new recruits to avoid another unpopular mobilization of troops at home.
克里姆林宫发言人德米特里·佩斯科夫此前未回应关于俄罗斯是否使用外国公民在乌克兰参战的评论请求。俄罗斯从未公开承认此举，其官方立场是，该国拥有足够的人力资源应对战争。
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov didn’t respond to an earlier request for comment on whether Russia is using foreign nationals to fight in Ukraine. Russia has never publicly acknowledged doing so, and its official line is that the country has enough manpower for the war.
“从军事人员储备的角度来看，我们没有任何问题，”普京于9月3日在符拉迪沃斯托克表示，并驳斥了俄罗斯可能宣布新一轮动员的猜测。“人们是自愿前来并签订合同的。”然而，国际特赦组织称，已有数千名来自全球南方国家的男性被招募。其中许多人被招募人员通过承诺提供签约奖金和各类工作机会的广告所吸引。
“From the point of view of the availability of military personnel, we have no problems here,” Putin said in Vladivostok on Sept. 3, dismissing speculation that Russia may announce another round of mobilization. “People are coming forward voluntarily andg contracts.”Still, Amnesty International has said that thousands of men from the Global South have been recruited. Many of those have been lured by agents and adverts promising sign-on payments and employment in a range of jobs.
博茨瓦纳政府于8月21日表示，已阻止八名公民在该国、南非和埃塞俄比亚的机场被招募进入俄罗斯军队。一个月前，该国曾发布公开声明，警告公民不要被迫为俄罗斯作战。近几个月来，津巴布韦已逮捕了数名试图招募他人的人员，其中包括两名俄罗斯人。他们目前正等待审判。
Botswana’s government said on Aug. 21 it stopped eight citizens from being recruited into the Russian military at airports in the country, South Africa and Ethiopia. A month earlier, it issued a public statement warning citizens against getting coerced into fighting for Russia. Zimbabwe has arrested a number of people for attempted recruitment, including two Russians, in recent months. They are now awaiting trial.
然而，他们几乎不可能回国，因为乌克兰方面坚持认为，作为战俘，他们必须与被俄罗斯扣押的乌克兰人进行交换。
Still, there is little chance of them coming home because Ukraine maintains that as prisoners of war they would need to be exchanged for Ukrainians being held by Russia.
穆达瓦迪表示，在乌克兰某营地被关押的肯尼亚人中，最年轻者年仅23岁。“他们的招募和征召情况符合人口贩运的特征，”这位部长说道。
Among the Kenyans being held at a camp in Ukraine, the youngest is 23, Mudavadi said. “The circumstances of their recruitment and conscription are consistent with trafficking in persons,” the minister said.
外交部长在向议会通报最新情况时表示，约有84名肯尼亚人阵亡或失踪，另有34人在俄罗斯住院。穆达瓦迪称，目前已有总共62名参与战争的肯尼亚公民被遣返回国。
About 84 Kenyans have been killed or are missing in action, while another 34 are hospitalized in Russia, the foreign minister said in an update to parliament. A total of 62 Kenyan nationals involved in the war have been repatriated back home so far, according to Mudavadi.