Putin will ban the recruitment of Ghanaian citizens for the war with Ukraine "This ban applies to all circumstances of participation, both through illegal recruitment and on his own initiative," said Ghana's Foreign Minister Samuel Okudezto Alabakwa. According to him, Vladimir Putin made such a promise in a meeting with the President of Ghana John Dramani Mama in the Kremlin following the results of the third summit between Russia and Africa. In the past, the UN's independent international commission of inquiry into crimes during the war in Ukraine accused the Russian Federation of human trafficking due to the recruitment of foreign mercenaries sent to the front by deception. According to the latest data from Kyiv, the Russian Federation recruited more than 28,000 foreigners from 135 countries. More than 5,000 of them have already died in the war. At least 213 foreigners were held as prisoners of war in Ukraine. 37 of them are citizens of African countries. In February 2026, important reports in stories about a mercenary from Ghana, Calvin Ajire, who first served in the Russian army and then began to advertise a contract with the Ministry of Defense in the Russian Federation among his countrymen.