# Seventeen South Africans who are stuck in the war-torn region of Donbas in eastern Ukraine were reportedly sent to Russia by Jacob Zuma’s MK Party. Last week, government received distress calls from the men, who had been lured to join mercenary forces under the pretext of lucrative employment contracts. According to News24, the men believed they were going to be trained as MK Party bodyguards. In a letter addressed to Russia’s Defence minister, Andrey Belousov, Zuma begs for the men to be removed from the combat zone.
17 SA men lured to the war-torn region of Donbas reportedly linked to the MK Party