'Don't come, there's nothing good here' — Chinese soldiers warn against following Russian propaganda to fight in Ukraine

Not a huge surprise that Russia is screwing recruits our of pay, and treating them very poorly. But this part was interesting:

Among grievances is endemic racism among Russian divisions against non-white recruits.

"There has been severe racial discrimination since training camp, discriminating against Black people, Arabs, and Chinese," Macron said.

That means Russia is actively recruiting fighters/mercenaries from all over the place. Including Africa. I hadn't heard of black fighters fighting for Russia.

"Russia is reluctant to send their regular Slavic troops to charge on the front lines, so they spend money to recruit mercenaries for front-line charges, where survival chances are extremely low," the report says.

Ah, the age old strategy of "You don't need to pay corpses!" It works of course... but only until word gets out about how you treat your mercenaries.