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Seventeen South African men, aged between 20 and 39, are trapped on the front lines of the Ukraine war, reportedly after being lured with promises of elite security training or jobs abroad. Instead, they found themselves in Russia’s conflict in Donbas, digging trenches, facing starvation and dodging drone strikes, according to family accounts and Reuters reporting.

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00:00I
00:30My boy, I spoke with him, I spoke with him yesterday and
00:58all the time my boy is crying when he's talking, all the time he's crying because of the situation.
01:19The whole of the morning at home is changing.
01:22His mom is crying and his two sisters is crying.
01:28The situation is so bad and my boy is the last one.
01:52They are working, they are digging with the trenches almost every day and even the training,
02:09the training is so hard.
02:13They are carrying with very huge weapons.
02:19The problem, what are they facing for, there's no water at some stage, no food, almost maybe
02:28there's a few days getting with the food and maybe five days they didn't get the food.
02:35Even, it's so hard even to bathe.
02:37Even, it's so hard even to bathe.
02:42They've contacted us early November this year.
03:03They've realized there is something wrong a long time ago when we talked, around August.
03:16Yes, around August, they've realized there is something wrong.
03:20But they didn't tell us because they didn't want us to panic.
03:23I was angry, to be honest.
03:40I was afraid that we might lose him because now we speak about war.
03:48People die in the war.
03:51Even innocent people die.
03:53Even the soldiers die in the war.
03:58What about him?
03:59He's not a soldier.
04:01He's just a guy who wanted a better life for him and his children.
04:18Before they left, they met a former president's daughter, Tutuzele Zuma Sambuda.
04:35She gave them flight tickets.
04:39They didn't pour it themselves.
04:41If you don't stop dance I would like to find out, how…
04:58The party is not involved in the Russia-Ukraine matter affecting these young people.
05:26When we are going to the Christmas, all the families will be together, but for us as a parent, we will not be together, and we know our boys are facing a terrible situation.
05:56The party is not involved in the future.
06:01The party is not involved in the future.
06:06I am not involved in the future.
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07:08We are waiting for all, I am supposed to say, I am not.
07:11Okay.
07:13I am not going to say, what, like?
07:16Okay.
07:17We are going to come to his mission.
07:20We will go there and go there.
07:23And we will stay there.
07:26We will be there.
07:29Yeah, exactly, exactly.
07:43He's going to be here.
07:47He's going to be here.
07:59here
08:29you
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