Desperate Putin starts recruiting Yemen mercenaries to fight in Ukraine: Hundreds 'lured to Russia with high salaries before being sent to Ukraine frontline'

Russia has recruited hundreds of Yemeni mercenaries to reinforce its lines in Ukraine under the false promise of high salaried work and Russian citizenship, sources claim. Houthi supporters chant slogans while holding their weapons up during an anti-US and anti-Israel protest in Sana'a, Yemen, on November 22 Ukrainian servicemen fire a 2s5 'Hyacinth-s' self-propelled howitzer towards Russian troops on the frontline, near Chasiv Yar on November 18 The Russian army's multiple rocket launcher Solntsepyok fires towards Ukrainian positions in the border area of Kursk region, Russia, released November 13 Vladimir Putin holds a meeting with the Defense Ministry leadership and representatives of the defense industry on November 22, in Moscow The recruitment of Yemeni soldiers 'appears to have begun as early as July', the FT reports, months before Kim Jong Un sent his forces to buttress Putin's lines. Information was passed on from Russia to members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps embedded within the Houthi ranks, a source told the WSJ last month. One motivation for Moscow to arm the Houthis, well-placed sources told Reuters last month, was the looming threat of the US allowing Ukraine to use long-range missiles to strike deep into Russian territory. Police evacuate a family from the village of Yelyzavetivka in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, in the Kurakhove direction on November 14 The oil tanker Cordelia Moon bursts into flames after being hit by a missile in the Red Sea, off Yemen's Red Sea Port of Hodeida, in this screengrab from a video released on October 1, 2024 A child gestures as protesters, mainly Houthi supporters, rally to show support to Lebanon's Hezbollah and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, in Sanaa, Yemen, November 22, 2024 Smoke rising from the Sounion following Yemen's Houthis attacks, in the Red Sea, August 29 The Yakhont is considered one of the world's most advanced anti-ship missiles, designed to skim the sea's surface to avoid detection at more than twice the speed of sound, making it difficult to intercept.