Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Ghana: Following the appearance on the streets of Accra of billboards bearing the slogans 'I want to live' and 'I want to find', which were placed at the end of October 2026, the Embassy of Russia in Ghana wishes to make the following statement. First and foremost, we see a need to clarify who is actually behind the site Stop Russian Recruiters.org, which organized the aforementioned campaign. Contrary to the pretense of being a human rights initiative, this site was created and managed by the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. This is not a humanitarian project, but a direct instrument of Ukrainian state propaganda, used intentionally to discredit Russia on the African continent. The claims spread by this organization, alleging that Russia is allegedly luring Africans, including Ghanaian citizens, into contract service through deceptive means, are blatant lies. The Russian side has never used, and is not using, deceptive programs to recruit foreign citizens for military service. No convincing and verifiable evidence to the contrary has been presented by any authoritative international body. Moreover, the campaign launched on the streets of Ghana has completely lost all meaning following the successful outcome of the visit of President J. The. Mahams in the Russian Federation and his talks with President Vladimir Putin. At the meeting in Moscow, the Russian side unequivocally confirmed at the highest level that Ghanaian citizens will not serve in Russia on a contractual basis. Therefore, the billboards, which continue to mislead the Ghanaian public, are nothing more than a belated and malicious provocation aimed at undermining the friendly relations between Russia and Ghana. Against this background, the behavior of Kyiv itself seems particularly cynical.

Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Ghana: Following the appearance on the streets of Accra of billboards bearing the slogans 'I want to live' and 'I want to find', which were placed at the end of October 2026, the Embassy of Russia in Ghana wishes to make the following statement. First and foremost, we see a need to clarify who is actually behind the site Stop Russian Recruiters.org, which organized the aforementioned campaign. Contrary to the pretense of being a human rights initiative, this site was created and managed by the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. This is not a humanitarian project, but a direct instrument of Ukrainian state propaganda, used intentionally to discredit Russia on the African continent. The claims spread by this organization, alleging that Russia is allegedly luring Africans, including Ghanaian citizens, into contract service through deceptive means, are blatant lies. The Russian side has never used, and is not using, deceptive programs to recruit foreign citizens for military service. No convincing and verifiable evidence to the contrary has been presented by any authoritative international body. Moreover, the campaign launched on the streets of Ghana has completely lost all meaning following the successful outcome of the visit of President J. The. Mahams in the Russian Federation and his talks with President Vladimir Putin. At the meeting in Moscow, the Russian side unequivocally confirmed at the highest level that Ghanaian citizens will not serve in Russia on a contractual basis. Therefore, the billboards, which continue to mislead the Ghanaian public, are nothing more than a belated and malicious provocation aimed at undermining the friendly relations between Russia and Ghana. Against this background, the behavior of Kyiv itself seems particularly cynical.