Russia recruits Chinese volunteers for Ukraine war as Putin scrambles to boost army

Mark Galeotti, a defence and intelligence expert working for the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), added: "The Russians are perfectly willing to hire volunteers from wherever (just like the Ukrainians), and we know they have recruits from Nepal to Latin America, so the presence of a Chinese soldier is nothing necessarily significant, especially as many Chinese do speak Russian. There is certainly no evidence of any organised, state-backed Chinese presence."