Jordan's Foreign Ministry, which is investigating the deaths of two Jordanians who enlisted in the Russian army, announced today, without mentioning Russia's war against Ukraine, that it has asked Moscow to stop the "illegal recruitment" of Jordanians to fight in the Russian army and to release Jordanians who are already in it.
At the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he intended to recruit 16.000 fighters from the Middle East.
Spokesman Fuad al-Majali said the ministry would "take all available measures to stop this practice" and warned that engaging in wars abroad was prohibited under Jordanian law and that such recruitment violated international law.
The spokesman said Jordan was trying to stop the work of "entities operating on social media to recruit Jordanians."
It is not known how many Jordanians are in the Russian army, and only a few hundred live in Russia, but according to unofficial estimates, more than 20.000 of them have studied in Russia.
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