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Russia is actively seeking to bolster its faltering military campaign in Ukraine through covert operations and international recruitment. The Kremlin has partnered with Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen to facilitate the trafficking of Yemeni citizens into Russia under false pretenses of lucrative jobs and citizenship, only to conscript them at gunpoint into fighting the Ukrainian front. Reports from the Financial Times indicated that hundreds of these recruits, who often lack military experience, have been shipped directly into combat zones in eastern Ukraine.