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Ukraine's military intelligence has identified the bodies of two Cameroonian nationals who were fighting for the Russian Armed Forces and were killed on separate sectors of the front.
According to the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine's Defense Ministry (HUR) on July 15, the bodies were recovered in the Lyman and Zaporizhzhia directions.
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The first individual was identified as Ngouloure Ibrahim Nkite, born on March 10, 2003, from Douala, Wouri Department.
According to HUR, Nkite arrived in Russia on February 9, 2026. On April 4, he signed a one-year contract as a rifleman with the Russian military in the city of Oryol.
After completing several weeks of training, he was deployed to Russian-occupied territory in Ukraine's Luhansk region. HUR said he was killed around May 12 near Lyman in Ukraine's Donetsk region, during a “meat assault.”
The second individual was identified as Tapindjeu Namekong Loique, born on April 15, 2001, also from Douala.
HUR said Loique signed a contract as a rifleman with the Russian army on March 25 in the Russian city of Vologda. Before joining the military, he had been a student at Michurinsk State Agrarian University in Russia's Tambov region, where, according to the agency, he was recruited to fight against Ukraine.
After a brief period at a training center, Loique was deployed to the front and was killed around April 23 near Huliaipole in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region.
According to HUR, both Cameroonian nationals survived for only about one month after signing contracts with the Russian military.
The agency added that, according to data from its “I Want to Live” project, at least 106 Cameroonian citizens have been killed while fighting for Russia since the start of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
In March, Ukraine's Foreign Intelligence Service reported that Russia had established a systematic framework for coercing foreign nationals into military service while avoiding the appearance of formal recruitment.
According to the agency, the Kremlin has increasingly targeted non-citizen migrants residing in Russia to replenish battlefield losses. Because many countries across Asia, Africa, and Latin America officially oppose the recruitment of their citizens, Russian authorities have relied on legal mechanisms that effectively compel foreign nationals to join the military.
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