Colombia’s government on Thursday asked Russia to provide “information” about three of its citizens in Moscow’s custody accused of fighting as mercenaries for Kiev’s forces in the war in Ukraine, the foreign ministry said. Colombian diplomacy asked the Russian Foreign Ministry “for information on their legal status, the current location of Colombian citizens and their state of health,” according to the text. A Moscow court announced late last month that it had ordered the pretrial detention of two Colombian nationals accused of being mercenaries who fought against Russian armed forces on Ukrainian territory. The Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, however, that it is three persons, Alexander Ade, Jose Aaron Medina Aranda and Miguel Angel Cardenas. Moscow, which invaded the territory of neighboring Ukraine in February 2022, invariably describes foreign volunteers who fight in the ranks of the Ukrainian armed forces as “mercenaries”. […]
Source: News Beast
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