Some of the posts have said that Yemenis who arrive on the front lines are generally prohibited from leaving until they complete a one-year contract with the Russian military.

Many have described conditions far harsher than anything they had experienced in Yemen's bloody war, with some actively warning others not to come.

Meanwhile, some of the accounts MEE has been monitoring have failed to post any updates for several months, lending speculation that they may have been killed in action.

A handful of those who have appeared in videos have appealed to the Yemeni government for help in bringing them back.

The reason the general quality of russian infantry sucks is because the russian military is a predatory institution that produces russian infantry brigades as its victims who are then leveraged to create even more victims. This isn't to excuse the choices of individuals to fight in this illegal offensive war against Ukraine, rather it is to point out that frontline Ukrainian troops and frontline russian troops are at a strategic level expressions of fundamentally different things.

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[–] homes@piefed.world 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What, did North Korea already run out of people?

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Honestly I think they realized how hopelessly the russian war machine had already been broken before they stepped into the picture in force and once they realized how bad it was they started backing away slowly promising to help from further away.

[–] deadcream@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 days ago

They have been supplying ammunition to russia for years.

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Even Putin isn't stupid or desperate enough yet to give the latest nuclear bomb or ICBM tech to North Korea for more cannon fodder.

[–] Novocirab@feddit.org 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not necessarily full weapons tech, but... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/12/russian-ship-ursa-major-sank-spain-nuclear-reactors-north-korea

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 3 points 3 days ago

Thanks for that article, I had missed that

CNN and La Verdad reported that a 50cm by 50cm hole found in the vessel’s hull – with the damaged metal facing inwards – could have been made by a super-fast weapon known as a supercavitating torpedo.

“Only the United States, a few Nato allies, Russia and Iran are believed to have this kind of high-speed torpedo, which fires air ahead of the weapon to reduce the drag of the water,” said CNN.

Someone got serious about not letting NK have those reactors!